(IsraelNN.com) A former security guard who was responsible for protecting a Caracas rabbi has been charged with using his knowledge to help stage the January 31 attack on the house of worship where the rabbi officiated.

Venezuelan minister Tareck el Aissami said that the man and one other guard cut electricity cables to the synagogue's electronic fence, allowing more than a dozen others, including eight policemen, to attack the synagogue without touching off the alarm system.

The vandals damaged religious articles, sprayed "Jews - Get out" on the walls of the synagogue and stole a computer with the names and addressed of Jews in the country. The damage prohibited the congregation from praying in the Tiferet Israel synagogue the following Sabbath.

The bodyguard had stopped working for the rabbi in December, when he joined the Caracas police force.
 
Aissami said it was clear that the attack was an inside job because there was no evidence of a break-in. He added that the vandals were trying to implicate the Chavez government several weeks after he broke off diplomatic relations with Israel to protest Operation 'Cast Lead' against Gaza terrorists.
 
State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters in Washington, "We expect that the government of Venezuela will do what it can to make sure that that type of activity doesn't continue and to... arrest any perpetrators who may have carried out any type of anti-Semitic activity."