Police have detained a person suspected of an attempted arson attack on a synagogue in the southern French town of La Grande-Motte.
The arrest follows a blast outside a synagogue that injured a police officer, the latest in a series of incidents in recent months that have unsettled France’s large Jewish community. A lone suspect set multiple cars on fire in a parking lot across the street from Synagogue Beth Yaacov before one exploded in La Grande-Motte, a southern seaside town not far from Montpellier.
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