Source: CNN
Wire Service: Reuters
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/17/norway.synagogue.reut/index.html
On September 17, 2006 Reuters reported, "Shots were fired at a synagogue in central Oslo early on Sunday and police said they were investigating whether the incident was linked to religious hatred.
Armed police sealed off the synagogue after the incident at around 2.30 a.m. (0030 GMT). No one was injured.
'It seems some of the shots hit the synagogue,' said Bjoern Christian Joergensen, a police spokesman.
Asked if the shooting was connected to religious intolerance, he said: 'We are keeping all options open and investigating this possibility.'
The Mosaic Religious Community, which owns the synagogue, had asked for better protection of its property following threats and after the site was vandalized in early August.
'This is the last in a series of incidents this summer whose purpose, it sees, is to scare us,' Anne Sender, the leader of the Mosaic Religious Community, told Reuters... Norway's Jewish community had asked its members not to speak Hebrew on the streets of Oslo after an assault on a man wearing a yarmulke in July. In August a man defecated on the steps of the Oslo synagogue and smashed two windows there."