SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. – Members of the Jewish neighborhood in Sunny Isles Beach spoke to Local 10 News Monday after a person used to be arrested remaining weekend for alleged hate crimes.
Police say Muhammed Ali Al Saccal allegedly used a pointy object to frighten Orthodox Jews in the neighborhood. Detectives had been looking for what some sufferers described as a dagger or screwdriver.
“I didn’t say anything to Jews; I am 10% Jew,” Al Saccal, 39, stated whilst on the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department headquarters on Saturday.
Sgt. Brain Schnell stated seven sufferers disagreed and detectives had for sure it used to be him, so he used to be going through fees and a prosecutor used to be investigating the opportunity of hate crime upgrades.
“Over the past three days now, we’ve received calls about members of our Jewish community being harassed, tormented,” Schnell stated.
A pair reported that they had been strolling alongside Collins Avenue on their method to a synagogue when Al Saccal focused them.
“He drew a weapon out of his pants, chased them yelling antisemitic sentiments saying, ‘All Jews were the devil’ and ‘All Jews must die,’ Schnell said.
Rabbi Alexander Kaller had his congregants attacked by Saccal and cops say he was going around Sunny Isles Beach threatening Jews.
“It’s very disturbing,” stated Kaller. “I had messages from different officials announcing: ‘Rabbi, we will not tolerate any hate in Sunny Isles Beach.”’
Authorities’ measures towards hate crimes were getting examined because the Israel-Hamas conflict began about 4 months in the past.
Al Saccal is a Sunny Isles Beach resident who used to be born in Jordan, an Arab country that stocks a border with the West Bank. On Jan. 28, an Iran-backed armed forces’s drone assault killed 3 U.S. Army reservists and injured over 40 troops at a U.S. base in Jordan, which has a peace treaty with Israel since 1994.
“We are not by any means, going to tolerate any type of crime geared towards hate or a specific group regardless of what’s going on in the world, regardless of what side this person is on,” Schnell stated.
Miami-Dade correctional officials booked Al Saccal who used to be going through fees of harassment or intimidation in accordance with spiritual or ethnic heritage and tried annoyed attack with a perilous weapon.
Kaller had a message for his and any neighborhood who’re experiencing any more or less hatred:
“We walk and we won’t cave into any terror,” he stated. “Trust in God and trust in our police department.”
Detectives requested any individual with information about this or different circumstances to name Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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