Police have told community leaders that car firebombings that rattled a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn were probably an insurance scam, and not a hate crime, the Daily News has learned.
Vandals on Nov. 11 torched three cars in Midwood, tried to set a fourth afire and scrawled messages of hate — swastikas, KKK and other obscenities — on a nearby van and benches.
The pre-dawn incident led to denunciations from Mayor Bloomberg and other elected officials.
To date, there have been no arrests and police have not definitively ruled out any motive.
But police sources said investigators now believe the graffiti was probably scrawled in a ruse to make the firebombings look like an act of hate.
Another source said investigators are “pretty certain” the cars were torched so someone could collect insurance money.
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That seems quite reasonable. If anti-semitism was as great in Brooklyn as various activists and journalists try to claim, Jews would have long since fled the borough in utter terror. There are places in the world where Jews risk being attacked for the crime of walking on the street looking too Jewish – but Brooklyn isn’t one of them.
Does not make too much sense, it was a few cars, not a single one, and the way and nature how it happened just doesn’t match insurance scamming, if not anti semites it may be the work of drunken or drugged up hoodlums.
Akuperma, that’s funny. The fact that people thought it was indeed a hate crime, and yet still did not move out, disproves your theory.
I wouldn’t surprise me at all if that were the case. According to police sources the dozens of beer bottles found at the scene were completely empty which is inconsistant with a site where people hung out drinking. I assume that neither I nor the arsonist knew that members of such a crowd would put down a bottle with some beer remaining and then forgetting it start another.
WIY: Why do you assume the perpetrator was a Yid?
Guter yid: If they were trying to make it look like a hate crime in order to cover up insurance fraud, why restrict it to one car? It’s more convincing if it’s several cars.
Were all cars owned by same person or entity? Were several people in it together to individually collect insurance? The police know something they are not letting out if they would make such a statement.
Hardly a shocker. I said it at the time and YW was kind enough to post my comment.