(Radio France) French authorities have stepped up security at Jewish institutions and opened a terror investigation after a blazing car exploded outside a synagogue on Saturday in the southern town of La Grande-Motte, injuring a police officer.
Local media said two cars, one of which contained at least one gas bottle, had been set on fire outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in La Grande-Motte, at about 8:30 a.m on Saturday.
Acting Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said France’s national anti-terror prosecutors (Pnat) had been tasked with probing the incident.
“La Grande-Motte’s synagogue was the target of an attack this morning,” Attal said in a post on social media platform X. “An anti-Semitic act. Once again, our Jewish fellow citizens are being targeted.”
