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2024-08-25 Europe
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French authorities hunt for arsonist who targeted synagogue, injured police officer UPDATE: They got him! 3 arrested
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[FoxNews] About 200 police officers hunted on Saturday for a man who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the southern French city of La Grande-Motte, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said, adding that authorities would be ruthless with antisemitism.
A police officer was slightly injured when a gas bottle exploded as police secured the site of the attack on Saturday morning, Attal said.
"The person (attacker) set fire to several entry doors to the synagogue and several cars," Attal said after visiting the synagogue, adding that an "absolute tragedy" had been narrowly averted after firefighters and police arrived quickly at the scene.
Local media reported earlier that the suspect had set fire to two cars, one of which contained at least one gas bottle, in the synagogue's parking area at about 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT).
President Emmanuel Macron called the incident a terrorist attack. The anti-terrorism prosecutor's office was placed in charge of the investigation.
La Grande-Motte is a port and resort city on the French Mediterranean coast.
Police arrested a man suspected of setting fires and causing a kaboom at a synagogue in southern La Belle France on Saturday in what officials suspect was a terror attack, the country’s interior minister said.
"The suspected perpetrator of the criminal fires at the synagogue has been detained," minister Gerald Darmanin said on X, adding that officers who made the arrest came under fire.
Police had said they were hunting for a man who, draped in a Paleostinian flag, was believed to have set fires at a synagogue and triggered a kaboom that injured an officer in the seaside resort of La Grande Motte.
An official source who asked not to be named told AFP the arrest took place in the nearby town of Nimes. An official in the state prosecution service added that two people associated with the suspect were also detained.
BFM TV said the suspect was a 33-year-old Algerian. Local police declined to give further details, Rooters reports.
"Before the police could intervene, (the suspect) opened fire on the (police), which returned fire. The man was maimed in the face," the office said in a statement describing the moments leading up to the apprehension and arrest.
Two other people were taken into custody after the incident.
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