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Friday, May 17, 2024
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Friday, May 17, 2024
French synagogue attack ‘act of anti-Semitism’ – minister
France's Minister for Interior and Overseas Gerald Darmanin (2nd R) is welcomed by Rabbin Chmouel Lubecki as he arrives at the synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen on May 17, 2024, where French police shot dead earlier a man armed with a knife and a crowbar who was setting fire to the building. (Lou Benoist/AFP)
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says that an attack on a synagogue was an “act of anti-Semitism” and denounced the “despicable” violence against France’s Jewish population.
Darmanin says an attempt to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen was an “anti-Semitic act against a place that is sacred to the Republic,” adding he regretted the “unacceptable, despicable” violence against Jewish people in France.
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