[4] Of the about ten masked individuals at the scene, two stateless Palestinians and one Syrian was later identified and were sentenced to jail for having committed a hate crime.
The trial began on 12 June 2018[8] and prosecutor Stina Lundqvist charged the defendants with arson and antisemitic hate crime and demanded an eight-year prison sentence for each and deportation for all.
[9] All three suspects, who were aged 19 to 24,[10] were sentenced by the District Court of Gothenburg 25 June 2018[8] for having committed a hate crime, gross unlawful threat (Swedish: grovt olaga hot) and attempting to commit gross damage to property (Swedish: försök till grov skadegörelse) against the Jewish congregation and Jews in general, but did not uphold the charge of aggravated arson as the firebombs were not considered powerful enough.
According to the District Court of Gothenburg, the crime was serious enough to motivate deportation of all three, but the Swedish Migration Agency had given the other two perpetrators permanent residence permits.
[11] The prosecutor pointed out that anyone watching the security camera recordings would be in no doubt the intent was to burn down the synagogue and that the court decision had happened due to technicalities, but also expressed satisfaction that the hate crime charge had been upheld.