2026年4月4日 / 美国东部时间上午11:53 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
周六，两名年轻男子及一名男孩在出庭接受纵火罪指控后被下令继续羁押，他们涉嫌纵火烧毁伦敦一家犹太慈善机构的四辆救护车。
3月23日，这场火灾发生在伦敦北部犹太人口众多的戈尔德斯格林社区，烧毁了志愿组织“西北哈佐拉”的四辆救护车，该组织负责该地区的急救服务。车内的氧气瓶发生爆炸，震碎了相邻一栋公寓楼的窗户。
火势最终得到控制，暂无人员伤亡报告。
英国男子哈姆扎·伊克巴尔（20岁）、雷汉·汗（19岁），以及一名拥有英国-巴基斯坦双重国籍的17岁少年，均来自伦敦东区，三人于周五被指控犯有纵火罪及不顾他人生命安全的鲁莽行为。由于该未成年嫌疑人未满18岁，出于法律原因不得公开其姓名，他将被关押在青少年拘留中心。
在周六威斯敏斯特地方法院长达45分钟的庭审中，三名嫌疑人未做抗辩。法庭还获悉，另有一名嫌疑人因这起火灾被逮捕。
反恐警方正在将此次火灾作为反犹太仇恨犯罪进行调查。他们正在调查一个据称与伊朗有关联的组织宣称对此事负责的说法，但尚未将其定性为恐怖主义行为。
“有大量证据表明，这是一起针对犹太社区的有预谋、有针对性的袭击，”检察官艾玛·哈洛韦在法庭上表示。
三名被告定于4月24日在伦敦中央刑事法院，即众人熟知的老贝利法院，再次出庭。
另外两名男子此前因涉嫌蓄意纵火危及生命被逮捕，之后已获得保释。
近几个月来，英国及欧洲境内的反犹太事件呈上升趋势，包括本月早些时候阿姆斯特丹一所犹太学校外发生的爆炸事件，以及比利时列日市和荷兰鹿特丹港城市内犹太教堂前发生的夜间袭击事件。
3月初，两名男子被指控代表伊朗对伦敦犹太社区进行“敌意”监视。同月晚些时候，法国官员宣布挫败了一起针对犹太目标的疑似恐怖袭击阴谋。
2 men and teen held in U.K. custody over Jewish charity ambulance attack
April 4, 2026 / 11:53 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Two young men and a boy were ordered Saturday to remain in custody after appearing in court on arson charges in the torching of four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in London.
The March 23 blaze in Golders Green, a north London neighborhood with a large Jewish population, destroyed four ambulances belonging to the volunteer organization Hatzola Northwest, which provides emergency care in the area. Oxygen cylinders in the vehicles exploded, breaking windows in an adjacent apartment block.
The fire was brought under control, and no injuries were reported.
British men Hamza Iqbal, 20, and Rehan Khan, 19, and a 17-year-old of dual British-Pakistani nationality, all from east London, were charged Friday with arson and being reckless as to whether life would be endangered. The younger man cannot be named for legal reasons because he is under 18. He will be held in a youth detention center.
The suspects did not enter pleas at the 45-minute hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court on Saturday. The court also heard that a fourth suspect was arrested in connection with the fire.
Counterterrorism police are investigating the fire as an antisemitic hate crime. They are looking into a claim of responsibility by a group with potential links to Iran, but have not declared it an act of terrorism.
“There is significant evidence that this was a premeditated and targeted attack against the Jewish community,” prosecutor Emma Harraway told the court.
The three defendants are set to appear at London’s Central Criminal Court, better known as the Old Bailey, on April 24.
Two other men were previously released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
The U.K. and Europe have seen a rise in antisemitic incidents in recent months, including an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam and nighttime attacks in front of synagogues in the Belgian city of Liege and the Dutch port city of Rotterdam earlier this month.
In early March, two men were charged with carrying out “hostile” surveillance of the London’s Jewish community on behalf of Iran. Later that same month, officials in France said they foiled a suspected terror plot aimed at Jewish targets.
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