Police Arrest Man, Woman in Golders Green Memorial Arson

British police arrested a 46-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life in connection with a fire at a memorial wall in Golders Green, north London. The incident occurred around 12:15 a.m. on April 27 on Limes Avenue, an area with a large Jewish community and near a Jewish centre. Counterterrorism officers are leading the investigation, and the wall itself sustained no damage.

The arrests took place Monday at a Romford address, which police searched. Both suspects remain in custody. The memorial wall honors Iranian protesters killed during a government crackdown in January, with additional sections dedicated to victims of the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival in Israel in 2023 and a recent statement of solidarity for the local Jewish community attached to a nearby tree.

This attack forms part of a series of suspected arson incidents in northwest London since a March 23 fire that destroyed four ambulances belonging to the Jewish volunteer emergency service Hatzola, also in Golders Green. Four people are due in court over that earlier attack. Counterterrorism police reported 30 arrests and nine charges across these cases,...