Police have shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning to set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen, France’s interior ministry has said.
The interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, posted on X that the armed individual had been “neutralised”, and he thanked officers for their “reactivity and their courage”.
The ministry confirmed that the suspect was shot and killed. It gave no other immediate details.
Tensions and anger have grown in France over the Israel-Gaza war. The number of antisemitic acts have surged in the country, which has the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in western Europe.
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