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Monday 11 deceMber 2017

Snow disrupts road, air travel in England, Wales 3 people arrested in

firebomb attack on
LONDON (AP) — Snow Swedish synagogue
caused travel disruptions
across central England and By JARI TANNER
northern Wales on Sunday, Associated Press
grounding flights, shutting HELSINKI (AP) — Three
down roads and triggering people have been arrest-
traffic accidents. ed for allegedly throwing
Birmingham, London firebombs at a synagogue
Stansted and London Lu- in the Swedish city of Gote-
ton airports briefly sus- borg, the second anti-
pended flights as runways Jewish attack in the Nordic
were cleared. The airports nation in two days. Jewish
advised passengers to con- groups condemned the
tact their airlines to check attacks as “unconsciona-
the status of flights. ble” and demanded that
Heathrow Airport just out- authorities take action.
side London, the busiest air- No one was injured in the
port in Europe, expressed attack late Saturday dur-
regret that weather condi- ing a youth event at the
tions in the U.K. resulted in synagogue and the adja-
disruptions for passengers. cent Jewish center in Swe-
“Airlines are responsible den’s second-largest city.
for ensuring their flights are A man walks past a snow covered phone box in Marlow, England, after heavy snow fell across Goteborg police spokes-
fully de-iced before they parts of the UK, Sunday Dec. 10, 2017. Snow is causing travel disruptions across central England man Peter Nordengard
are operated, and this is re- and northern Wales, grounding some flights and shutting down roads. said Sunday it is being in-
sulting in some delays and (Steve Parsons/PA via AP) vestigated as an attempt-
cancellations,” the airport persist for hours, with planes critical. tent snowfall that was fore- ed arson.
said in a statement posted and flight crews quickly The M1 motorway — the cast to last throughout Sun- The attack took place af-
on Twitter. knocked out of rotation for main highway between day. Strong winds slammed ter some 200 people rallied
Airports worked through the their next assignments. London and northeast Eng- the Welsh coast. late Friday in the southern
early evening to clear the Weather-related troubles land — was partially closed The Met Office warned of city of Malmo, yelling anti-
backlog of flights. But in the were also evident on U.K. in Leicestershire. wind and rain for London Jewish slogans and waving
world of interconnected air roadways. Police in Wales warned and southern England, with Palestinian flags to pro-
travel, the effects of any Police advised people to against all but the most es- gusts of up to 70 mph (110 test U.S. President Donald
extended disruptions can stay home unless travel was sential travel amid persis- kph) predicted.q Trump’s decision to recog-
nize Jerusalem as Israel’s
Ukraine: capital.
Witness Allan Stutzinsky told
Saakashvili supporters demand leader be impeached the TT news agency he saw
a dozen masked youths
who threw what appeared
By YURAS KARMANAU legations, and his lawyer pect of being sent back to Yegor Sobolev, an ally of to be firebombs into the
Associated Press said he was refusing food his native Georgia, which Saakashvili’s who was re- garden surrounding the
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Sev- to protest his detention. has sought him on abuse of moved Thursday as chair- synagogue in Goteborg,
eral thousand supporters of Saakashvili’s supporters office charges. man of a parliamentary but they failed to damage
opposition leader Mikheil marched across down- Saakashvili’s wife, Sandra anti-corruption committee the building.
Saakashvili rallied in the town Kiev, chanting “Down Elisabeth Roelofs, said Ukrai- by Poroshenko’s faction Swedish Prime Minister Ste-
Ukrainian capital Sunday, with the Gang!” and “Im- nian authorities “crossed a and its allies, called for the fan Lofven and other top
demanding his release peachment!” red line” by arresting him. In president’s dismissal. politicians condemned the
from jail and calling for They rallied on the capi- a reference to the business “Impeachment is a way to incidents and authorities
the country’s president to tal’s main Independence background of Poroshen- move from kleptocracy to increased security around
be impeached. Saakash- Square, the Maidan, which ko, who ran a chocolate democracy,” Sobolev said the synagogue and at
vili, the former president of was the focus of mas- business before his elec- at the rally. Protester Valery Jewish centers in Stock-
Georgia turned opposition sive protests that drove tion, she said, “We need Shapovalov carried a big holm and Malmo.
leader in Ukraine, was ar- Ukraine’s former Russia- to show him that politics is poster showing Poroshenko “I’m terribly upset over the
rested Friday on allegations friendly president from not business and people behind bars. attack on a synagogue in
that he colluded with Ukrai- power in February 2014, are not merchandise.” The “Poroshenko is an oligarch, Goteborg yesterday and
nian businessmen tied to and then walked toward demonstrators smashed and it’s silly to expect calls for violence against
Russia to topple President the where Saakashvili has the windows of a candy him to fight corruption,” Jews at a demonstration in
Petro Poroshenko. been held. store belonging to Porosh- Shapovalov said. “Bees Malmo,” Lofven said Sun-
Saakashvili rejected the al- Saakashvili faces the pros- enko’s company, Roshen. can’t oppose honey.” q day. q