The mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, has called for a public rally in front of the town hall this evening at 6pm.
The mayor of Rouen, who was on site on Friday morning, spoke of ‘considerable damage’ inside the building and condemned ‘a deeply anti-Semitic act’.
The fire was successfully brought under control by the fire brigade, which ‘arrived on the scene extremely quickly’ together with the police. BFMTV
According to a source familiar with the case, the suspect in the arson of the synagogue, who was shot dead by the police officers he subsequently threatened, was a 29-year-old Algerian citizen who had been under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) ‘for less than a year’. However, this was not enforceable as he had filed a complaint with the administrative courts’.Actu.fr
