A 32-year-old has been charged with serious vilification or hate crime and other offences but police say it is not being considered a terrorist incident

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Police have charged a man after a car was used to ram the gates of a synagogue in Brisbane.

Officers say the man was driving a Toyota Hilux utility when he knocked down the gates of the property in Margaret Street in Brisbane’s CBD shortly after 7pm on Friday.

The driver fled the scene before being taken into custody a short time later.