Police release video of Adass synagogue firebombing

Victoria's Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) has released images and video of three men believed to be involved in firebombing the Adass Israel synagogue in December last year.

The CCTV images captured a blue VW Golf 2020 sedan driving up to the synagogue. Three men wearing hoodies and masks get out of the car and carry several jerry cans to the synagogue. One smashes a synagogue window with an axe and two men begin pouring the contents of the cans into the building, then climb through with jerry cans. A third man ferries additional jerry cans from the car. The two men who entered the synagogue return and then one man throws a light through the broken window, causing a large flash of fire.

Police released the footage at a media conference today, calling for the public to contact them if they recognise the individuals in the images or know anyone who had access to a blue VW Golf 2020 sedan at the time of these offences.

AFP Assistant Commissioner Counter Terrorism and Special Investigations Command Stephen Nutt said investigators believed there were multiple offenders directly and indirectly linked to the synagogue arson attack, and that some were "extremely violent".

He said police were continuing to treat the attack as terrorism but there was no evidence of state actors nor of involvement by neo-Nazi groups.

Police said the vehicle is a stolen car with cloned number plates which has been used in several other crimes, including a shooting in Bundoora, in Melbourne's north, on the same night as the synagogue attack, and a nightclub arson attack at the Lux nightclub in South Yarra a month earlier.