U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, asked FBI director Robert Mueller today to investigate as hate crimes fires that damaged two South Florida synagogues.
Mueller agreed.
The FBI has jurisdiction over hate crimes motivated by intolerance of a person’s race, religion, or national origin, Wasserman Schultz said in a press release She asked for the fires to be investigated as hate crimes because the circumstances surrounding the Chabad Shul fire, the fact that it took place during Passover, and the fact that there have now been two fires at Miami Beach synagogues in the past six months.
Here's an account from today's New York Times .
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