French police fatally shoot a person suspected of planning to set hearth to a synagogue

Nationwide police mentioned the officers had been alerted early Friday morning that smoke was rising from the synagogue and got here head to head with the person after they bought there. The nationwide police info service mentioned the person surged towards officers with a knife and a steel bar. An officer opened hearth and fatally wounded the person, police mentioned.

Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol mentioned the person is believed to have climbed onto a trash container and thrown “a form of Molotov cocktail” contained in the synagogue, beginning a hearth and inflicting “vital injury.”

“When the Jewish group is attacked, it is an assault on the nationwide group, an assault on France, an assault on all French residents,” he mentioned.

“It is a fright for the entire nation,” he added. Tensions and anger have grown in France over Israel’s battle in Gaza.