The National Antiterrorism Prosecutor's Office said the attack was being investigated as an attempted assassination linked to a terrorist group and destruction of property with dangerous means.
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00:00Police in France say they have arrested a man suspected of starting fires and causing
00:06an explosion outside a synagogue in the country's southwest.
00:11Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the alleged perpetrator had been detained.
00:17French media said the suspect was shot and injured by police after he opened fire on
00:21the officers who came to arrest him in the city of Nîmes.
00:25Two cars parked at the Beth Yacov Synagogue complex in La Grande Motte were set on fire
00:30just after 8am local time.
00:33Firefighters discovered additional fires at two entrances to the complex.
00:38A police officer who walked up to the site was injured after a propane gas tank in one
00:43of the vehicles exploded.
00:46Five people, including the rabbi who were in the synagogue at the time of the attack,
00:50were unharmed.
00:52Prosecutors are investigating the attack as an attempted assassination linked to a terrorist
00:57group and destruction of property with dangerous means.