French police shot and killed an armed individual who reportedly intended to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen, France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday.
“National police in Rouen neutralized early this morning an armed individual who clearly wanted to set fire to the city’s synagogue,” Darmanin said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Fdesouche ID’s the perp.
According to a source close to the case, the suspect in the synagogue fire, shot dead by the police officers whom he then threatened, was a 29-year-old Algerian national, under an OQTF (obligation to leave the French territory) “ for less than a year. But this was not enforceable because he had initiated an appeal before the administrative courts .”
