They investigate a “Nazi” threat against the Orthodox Jewish mayor of Miami-Dade

The Police of surf sideone of the cities of the county of Miami-Dade (Southeastern US), investigates with the help of fbi A death threat received by Mayor Shlomo Danzinger, who is an Orthodox Jew, from a person who identified himself as a Nazi, the local press reported on Friday.

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The mayor has 24 hour police protection since the threat became known, the media reported.

According to the news channel Local 10a person who said he had recently joined a Nazi group wrote an email to the mayor saying he was coming to his house to “teach his family a lesson”.

surf sidea neighboring coastal town of miami beachhas a population of 5,700 inhabitants, of which a significant part are Orthodox Jews, but until Danzinger, elected in 2022, it had not had a mayor from that community.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the entity against hate in the world, published last March a report on anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in 2022, indicating that there were 3,697 cases, which means an increase of 36% compared to the previous year.

The organization, founded in 1913 with the mission of ending attacks on the Jewish townreleased the Anti-Semitic Incidents Audit, which indicates that on average there were 10 incidents per day during 2022, the highest level since records began in 1979.

According to the audit, the states with the highest number of incidents were NY (580), California (518), New Jersey (408), Florida (269) and Texas (211), which together represented 54% of the total.

Source: Elcomercio

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