BRUSSELS - Belgian police on Friday arrested a man suspected of trying to blow up a synagogue in what could be the latest in a string of anti-Jewish attacks across Europe linked to violence in the Middle East. Jules Mathieu, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office, said the man was suspected of having placed five gas bottles in a car and torching it in front of the synagogue in a densely populated area of the southern town of Charleroi. There was no explosion and the blaze was rapidly put out by firefighters based nearby. Mathieu would not identify the suspect in Charleroi, but said he was of Moroccan origin and had confessed to setting the car alight. "It's possible that he has psychological problems, but we have to have experts evaluate him first," he said.
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