{"id":5313,"date":"2026-03-09T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5313\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:09:09","slug":"synagogue-in-liege-damaged-in-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5313\/","title":{"rendered":"Synagogue in Liege damaged in explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-889275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">synagogue<\/a> in the Belgian city of Liege was damaged by an explosion early on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-887002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Belgian<\/a> broadcasters VRT and RTBF reported, citing local police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">No injuries were reported. The cause of the explosion, which happened around 4 a.m. local time, was unknown, VRT said.<\/p>\n<p>Liege&#8217;s mayor, Willy Demeyer, called the incident an &#8220;extremely violent act of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/history\/article-888864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">antisemitism<\/a>&#8221; in comments made to French-language public broadcaster RTBF.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion blew out the windows of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-889275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">synagogue<\/a>, as well as those of a building on the opposite side of the road, the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Police cordoned off the street while a specialized counter-terrorism team investigated the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Local police were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A synagogue in the Belgian city of Liege was damaged by an explosion early on Monday, Belgian broadcasters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[236,7,3970,3969],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-antisemitism","tag-belgium","tag-explosion","tag-synagogue"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116198438534511920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}