Toronto police investigating suspected hate-motivated vandalism at synagogue
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This article was published 24/05/2025 (307 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
TORONTO – Toronto police are looking for the public’s help identifying a suspect in a string of alleged hate-motivated vandalism at synagogues in the city’s north end.
Police say a man vandalized signs on the front lawns of three separate synagogues along Bayview Avenue between Finch Avenue East and Lawrence Avenue East last Sunday.
They say the suspect is middle-aged with a medium build, had facial hair and was wearing a dark green sweater, dark-coloured baseball hat and light-coloured pants and drove a grey Ford pickup truck.
Police believe he is the same person involved in a series of suspected hate-motivated vandalism cases last December in the area of Bayview Avenue and York Mills Road.
Police say on Dec. 2 and Dec. 20, a middle-aged man with a medium build and moustache driving a dark grey Ford pickup vandalized signs on the front lawn of a synagogue before fleeing in his vehicle.
Police ask anyone with information to come forward and the investigation is ongoing.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 24, 2025.
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