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Hooded vandals set cars alight at Greensborough business

Hooded vandals set cars alight at Greensborough business

The Age11 hours ago
Police have released CCTV of five hooded intruders setting cars on fire and spray-painting an Israel-linked weapons company in Melbourne's north-east.
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Detectives have released CCTV of five hooded offenders who set cars alight and spray-painted graffiti in an attack on an Israel-linked weapons company in Melbourne's north-east. The footage shows hooded figures dressed in black, using red spray-paint to scrawl slogans on the cars and setting the vehicles on fire in the early hours of Saturday. The group also vandalised a wall of the Greensborough business, Lovitt Technologies Australia. One car was destroyed, while another two were 'moderately' damaged, Victoria Police said. Local detectives are working with specialists from the arson and explosives squad to investigate the incident, which occurred about 3.55am on Saturday when five people broke into the business, before the cars were vandalised. Police are yet to find evidence linking the vandalism to an attack on East Melbourne Synagogue on Friday, and an incident later that night wherein 20 people stormed Israeli restaurant Miznon in Melbourne's CBD. Lovitt Technologies Australia, on Para Road in Greensborough, is a weapons company with links to Israel. It has previously been targeted by protesters opposing the Israeli military. 'Detectives are today releasing CCTV of five people they would like to speak to in relation to the incident,' Victoria Police said in a statement on Monday.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Hooded vandals set cars on fire at weapons company before fleeing on e-bikes

Detectives have released CCTV of five hooded offenders who set cars alight and spray-painted graffiti in an attack on an Israel-linked weapons company in Melbourne's north-east. The footage shows hooded figures dressed in black, using red spray-paint to scrawl slogans on the cars and setting the vehicles on fire in the early hours of Saturday. The group also vandalised a wall of the Greensborough business, Lovitt Technologies Australia. One car was destroyed, while another two were 'moderately' damaged, Victoria Police said. Local detectives are working with specialists from the arson and explosives squad to investigate the incident, which occurred about 3.55am on Saturday when five people broke into the business, before the cars were vandalised. Police are yet to find evidence linking the vandalism to an attack on East Melbourne Synagogue on Friday, and an incident later that night wherein 20 people stormed Israeli restaurant Miznon in Melbourne's CBD. Lovitt Technologies Australia, on Para Road in Greensborough, is a weapons company with links to Israel. It has previously been targeted by protesters opposing the Israeli military. 'Detectives are today releasing CCTV of five people they would like to speak to in relation to the incident,' Victoria Police said in a statement on Monday.

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