Photos and video began circulating online on January 8, showing the New York Police Department (NYPD) raiding a Brooklyn synagogue serving as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement. The images show young congregants facing off with police and damaging the building before being arrested.
Another video circulating online shows a basement entrance to the tunnel, while another shows a member of the community trying to escape through a sewer grate onto the street.
Rumours are circulating that the police discovered the tunnel when, in fact, the Jewish community discovered the tunnel dug by fringe members in late December and began work to close it on January 8. They called the police when the young radicals resisted their attempts.
A number of tweets have falsely claimed that the tunnel leads to the Jewish Children’s Museum, located just across the street from the synagogue, suggesting that the tunnel was used for child trafficking. However, the New York Department of Buildings did not say that the tunnel went under any roads.
It appears that the dissident faction built these tunnels illegally in an attempt to expand the synagogue.
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