Russian police have arrested two men suspected of attacking a Canadian rabbi and a Jewish community head and a criminal case on charges of inciting inter-ethnic, racial or religious enmity has been opened, the Ivanovo prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.

Canadian rabbi Zvi and the leader of Jewish community of Ivanovo Ervin Kirshtein were attacked on Monday evening. “They were wearing traditional Jewish clothes at the moment of the attack. This possibly caused the attack,” the regional prosecutor’s office said. The attackers shouted anti-Semite slogans, it said.

“The police found evidence proving that the suspects belong to the skinhead movement,” it said.

(Source: Inter-Fax)