Officer injured in explosion outside synagogue in southern France; police searching for perpetrators

A French police officer has been injured in an apparent antisemitic attack outside a synagogue in southern France.

According to posts on social media, the police officer was injured when an explosion went off outside the Beth Yaakov synagogue in La Grande-Motte.

Photos and videos on X show a fire and smoke at the synagogue.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denounces the “manifestly criminal” attack in a post on X.

“I want to assure our Jewish fellow citizens and the municipality of my full support and say that at the request of President Emmanuel Macron, all means are being mobilized to find the perpetrator,” he writes.

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