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Saturday, August 24, 2024
French Jewish group says synagogue arson attack was ‘an attempt to kill Jews’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe 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
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