Minister Darmanin made these statements on French television a day after the arson attack that affected the surroundings and entrance of a synagogue, causing an explosion that injured an officer. The suspect was wounded and arrested in a subsequent confrontation with police.
Behind him attack on a synagogue Saturday in a coastal resort town of the southeast Francethe French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, denounced on Sunday a increase in acts of antisemitism.
“Deliberately setting fire to a synagogue (…) is an anti-Semitic act and must be denounced as such,” Gérald Darmanin told French television, while noting that the alleged perpetrator was arrested on Saturday, adding that police had shown “great professionalism.”
The minister said that the police had managed to arrest the man despite the fact that “there was practically no information that morning.” Officers “returned fire and (the suspect) is now in the hospital receiving treatment“, according to Darmanin.
French media reported that the suspect was shot and injured by police after he opened fire on officers who came to arrest him.
five peopleincluding the rabbiwere inside the synagogue at the time of the attack, according to authorities. The burst was caused by two vehicles what were set on fire abroad. And police it turned out wounded. The Prosecutor’s Office is treating the attack as a terrorist act.
According to police sources cited by the French press, one of the vehicles contained a hidden gas cylinder. The suspect also arrested fuego a several entrance doors to the synagogue.
