France hunts for terror suspect after arson attack on synagogue injures cop – Times of India

Paris: 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. Two cars parked at the Beth Yaacov synagogue complex in the seaside resort town of La Grande Motte near Montpellier were set ablaze just after 8am Saturday, the National Anti-terrorism Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.Firefighters discovered additional fires at two entrances to the synagogue. A police officer who walked up to the site was injured after a propane gas tank in one the vehicles detonated, the statement said. Five people, including the rabbi, who were present in the synagogue complex at the time of the attack, were unharmed, it added.