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French police shoot man dead for setting fire to synagogue
Updated On: 18 May, 2024 07:44 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
Officers were alerted early Friday that smoke was rising from the synagogue and came face to face with the man when they got there, the national police information service said
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The Rouen Synagogue which the man had set ablaze. Pic/X
French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early on Friday, the latest apparent act in a storm of antisemitism roiling France.
Officers were alerted early Friday that smoke was rising from the synagogue and came face to face with the man when they got there, the national police information service said.
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