From the Liveblog of
Saturday, August 24, 2024
French Jewish group says synagogue arson attack was ‘an attempt to kill Jews’
The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) says an explosion outside a synagogue in southern France earlier this morning that wounded a police officer was “an attempt to kill Jews.”
The use of a gas canister “in a car at a time when worshippers are expected to arrive at the synagogue is not simply a criminal act,” CRIF president Yonathan Arfi tells AFP.
“This shows an intention to kill.”
A suspect caught on a surveillance camera after the explosion was brandishing a Palestinian flag, according to a source close to the police’s terror probe into the incident.
A terrorist attack has just targeted a synagogue in southern France with an explosion. This is anti-Semitic terrorism. Let's see what they'll call it to avoid upsetting Hamas terrorists in Gaza. How many will condemn it? How many protests in support of the Jewish people? pic.twitter.com/mbapJq1fW2
— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) August 24, 2024
