Kosher store near Paris hit by arson attack on anniversary of Jewish supermarket shooting

TheLocal.fr ^ | 9 January 2018 13:09 CET+01:00 | AFP/The Local (Ben McPartland)

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A suspected arson attack that burnt down a French kosher grocery store near Paris on Tuesday has revived anti-Semitism fears in France, three years to the day since a deadly assault on a Jewish supermarket by a jihadist gunman.

A suspected arson attack on a French kosher grocery store has revived anti-Semitism fears.

The incident took place in Créteil to the south east of Paris in France’s Val-de-Marne department.

The fire at the store Promo & Destock in Mont-Mesly in Créteil was signaled to the authorities at around 5 am on Tuesday morning. One or more of the individuals involved in the incident smashed the window pane before setting the store on fire.

The store was completely gutted in the fire, with the shelves along the aisles — where the fire is believed to have been started — blackened and charred, an AFP reporter said. “There is a lot of damage,” Créteil’s prosecutor Laure Beccuau told AFP, adding that investigators do not believe the fire was accidental.

On January 3^rd, two Jewish stores in the area including the one set on fire on Tuesday were tagged with five swastikas. The second store was also slightly damaged in the fire. …

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