Cape Town — Cape Town Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis has said that the City’s Metro Police, along with the South African Police Services (SAPS) are working together to find the alleged explosive device found at the Jewish Community Centre in Cape Town.
“On Friday 6 December 2024, my office received notification from the SAPS of a report that an alleged explosive device had been thrown over the front wall of the Jewish Community Centre in Hatfield Street, Cape Town,” Hill-Lewis said in a statement.
He said that Metro Police and SAPS have analysed the CCTV footage to get to the bottom of the incident, while the investigation has also been supported by the Safety & Security Information Management Services (SSIMS).
“While SAPS has not officially confirmed the nature of the device, they have handed the file over to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), indicating they view the matter with seriousness,” the mayor said.
Mayor @Geordinhl City Metro Police are assisting the SAPS investigation into an alleged explosive device at the Jewish Community Centre on 6 December.
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— City of Cape Town (@CityofCT) December 10, 2024
Hill-Lewis said the SAPS investigation confirmed that it was an attempted attack on the Jewish Community Centre and he condemned the attempted attack in the strongest way possible.
“Our city has a long and proud history of being a safe city for people of all religions to live and express their faith and traditions. Let us all commit ourselves to protecting and defending the best of that history,’ said Mayor Hill-Lewis.
According to Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith, investments in various safety technologies have assisted police with the investigation.
“Through our investments in various safety technologies such as CCTV, Automatic Number Plate Recognition, gunfire detection and eye-in-the-sky aerial surveillance, the City can recover hundreds of firearms through gunfire detection, find lost or injured persons on the mountain or along rivers, and assist SAPS in investigations like this and others when given the opportunity,’ said Smith.
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