| The car belonging a man appointed as one of France’s first Muslim "prefects" -- or departmental governors -- was destroyed by an explosive device which went off early on Sunday, authorities in the western city of Nantes said. Aissa Dermouche, 57, Algerian-born director of the Audencia school of management, was named prefect of the eastern department of Jura on Wednesday in the midst of a heated debate over positive discrimination. "An explosive device was planted in his car overnight and the car exploded on Avenue Camus (outside his home) at around 4:40am," Jean-Christophe Paille of the prefect’s office in Nantes said. He said there were no clues as to who was responsible for the blast, and that police protection of Mr Dermouche and his family had been stepped up. |