Synagogue fire in Hérault: suspect arrested in Nîmes

A fire broke out eacute; on Saturday morning in La Grande-Motte, in front of the Beth Yaacov synagogue. The terrorist lead is being considered. The suspect was arrested on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Nîmes.

The essentials:

• An explosion caused a fire in front of a synagogue in La Grande-Motte. A gas cylinder inside a car parked in front of the doors of the place of worship is believed to have caused the fire.
• The alleged perpetrator was arrested by the RAID in Nîmes. He is believed to be a 33-year-old man of Algerian nationality. He is believed to have acted alone. He was injured in the operation, but his life is not in danger.
• The outgoing Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, responded to Emmanuel Macron's call to pass the word to France's prefects to strengthen security around Jewish places of worship.
• A police officer was injured while trying to secure the area. He has been released from the hospital and is doing better.

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The outgoing Minister of the Interior announced that the suspect had been arrested. RAID teams intervened at around 11:30 p.m. in a building in the Pissevin district, N&icir;mes.

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A fire broke out on Saturday, August 24 in front of the Beth Yaacov synagogue in La Grande-Motte (Hérault). According to information from BFMTV, firefighters intervened around 8:30 a.m. Two cars parked in front of the place of worship were on fire. A gas cylinder was reportedly stored in one of them. According to video surveillance images, a suspicious individual left the premises a few moments before the flames ravaged the site. The doors of the synagogue were hit, but no one present was injured. inside was not injured. A municipal police officer was nevertheless hit while he was setting up a security system. The exact origin or severity of his injury is not yet known.

A “clearly criminal” act

In addition to the firefighters, bomb disposal experts were dispatched to the scene to try to control the fire. Gendarmes from the investigation unit of the Hérault group were also mobilized to carry out the initial observations.

Informed of the situation, the outgoing Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, asked the prefects to increase the static presence of law enforcement in front of Jewish places of worship. He speaks on X of a “manifestly criminal” act. He will go there in the afternoon, accompanied by the resigning Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal.