A 17-year-old boy has been charged after a suspected arson attack targeted Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, London over the weekend.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed the unnamed teenager, charged with arson, is a British national from Brent, north London.
He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
The boy has been accused of arson not endangering life.
On Saturday night, a person had been seen lighting a bag in the doorway of the place of worship in north west London.
Officials later discovered the bag contained three bottles with fluid in them, at around midnight on Sunday morning.
Smoke filled a room after a "bottle with some sort of accelerant had been thrown through the window", a Metropolitan Police spokesman previously said.
In the aftermath, the Community Security Trust (CST) confirmed an internal room sustained minor smoke damage.
Police cordoned off the area for investigation over the weekend
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In footage shared online, a figure in dark clothing can be seen lighting a bottle of liquid and hurling the item through a window at the London synagogue.
Over the weekend, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis branded the attack as an act of cowardice.
Following the incident in Harrow, deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans confirmed that Counter Terrorism Policing are leading all of the investigations into the string of recent incidents on Jewish and Israeli buildings.
Previously, four Jewish community ambulances were set alight in an arson attack on March 23.
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