Four unidentified young men wearing masks threw incendiary bottles into the synagogue building on Signalny Proyezd Street at 12:40 a.m. on Tuesday and fled, a law enforcement source told Interfax.

“Hooligans threw several incendiary bottles at the synagogue, but none of them hit the building and none of them exploded,” a Moscow Police spokesman told Interfax.

“It was an act of hooliganism and the incident will be probed on hooliganism charges,” he said.

But a source in law enforcement services said the attack could have been an act of nationalists’ revenge for a verdict, handed down to five members of the Nationalist-Socialist Society on Monday.

Reports said earlier that the Moscow District Military Court sentenced five members of the Nationalist-Socialist Society to life on counts of attempted murder and attempted terror attacks.

(Source: Interfax)