New York.- The authorities of New York They imposed a fine of 15 thousand dollars on the organizers of a wedding celebrated on November 8 by a prominent member of the Jewish ultra-orthodox community of the city that thousands of people attended.
“If people are doing something dangerous, we cannot allow it to happen,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday of the event, held at the Yetev Lev synagogue in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brookyn, and whose activities have been suspended on a precautionary basis.
In a press conference, De Blasio, who did not confirm the number of people who attended the ceremony, said that “beyond the number, whether there were hundreds or thousands, there were too many and it seems that there was a very conscious effort to hide what was happening. ”
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“A fine of 15 thousand dollars is very serious, in addition an order to cease activities has been imposed in the building. If there are more inappropriate activities, they would be the cause for the building to be closed permanently,” added the mayor.
Last Sunday, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, ordered an investigation into what happened and assured that if true it would be “a blatant disregard for the law and a lack of respect for the people of New York“.
It was about the wedding of a grandson of a Hasidic rabbi of which several videos were published in which a large number of attendees could be seen without masks.
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The Health department had prohibited its celebration last October because it was considered to violate the prohibition of mass congregation due to the pandemic.
The Orthodox community has refused to comply with the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 and they have taken to the streets en masse to protest the sanitary measures accusing the authorities of being anti-Semitic.
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