[Peace-discuss] Venezuelanalysis: Robbery, Not Anti-Semitism, Motive for Attack on Venezuelan Synagogue

[Robert Naiman]

A confession by security guard Víctor Escalona revealed that a
personal struggle over money was the motive of the crime. Edgar
Cordero, a Caracas police officer and bodyguard of Rabbi Isaac Cohen
had been denied a loan by the rabbi, so he planned to rob money from
the synagogue's coffers, and approached Escalona for assistance,
according to investigators from the from Venezuela's national
Criminal, Penal, and Scientific Investigations Unit (CICPC).

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4193


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