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The main French Jewish umbrella group described the synagogue blaze as "a scandalous message" and "a way of saying that Jews don't belong in French society."
France’s Interior Minister says that a man who was shot and killed by police after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen was an
ROUEN, France -- French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having started a fire that charred and blackened the insides of a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early Friday, an attack the interior minister said was "clearly" antisemitic and which infuriated Jewish leaders facing a surge in hate crimes since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
The man was armed with a knife and a metallic tool and was shot by an officer after he threatened the police.