SANTA MONICA, California - local and federal law enforcement officers were on Saturday for a man thought to be responsible for an explosion outside a synagogue here are looking for.
The explosion, the smaller damage to the Chabad caused House Lubawitscher synagogue early Thursday an accident attributed to first. But bomb technicians found that a home-made explosive device was the cause, said Santa Monica police.
Investigators have linked the explosives, Ron Hirsch, 60, a transient known that frequent synagogues and Jewish community centers in the area, where he would seek charity.
Although no motive was established in the authorities, Jewish leaders said that they did not believe that the episode was an anti-Semitic attack. A warning to Jewish institutions, sent the Anti-Defamation League.
"We have no evidence of this being a hate crime at this time", said Amanda Susskind, Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles. "We have no file on this man as a member of a group of hatred." "Some people in the community knew him, and it seems, as he very concerned only one was soul."
The FBI, the Los Angeles police and the Santa Monica police tried Saturday to find and arrest Mr Hirsch, sometimes alias the used Israel Fisher, on State of possession of a destructive device and independent local service charges.
Sgt. Jay Trisler Santa Monica Police Department said "Hirsch extremely dangerous thought," in a statement.
The explosion at 6: 45 am Thursday sent a metal pipe encased in concrete 25 metres into the air, before it fell on the roof of a house close to the synagogue. Material from the explosion, a wall of Chabad Lubavitch grazed House.
Rabbi Isaac Levitansky was in the synagogue occurred as the explosion. He said he learned only if the police evacuated 20 people from the synagogue and some 80 others in the field of almost an hour later.
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