Police in France shot an armed suspect dead Friday morning after he attempted to torch a synagogue, authorities said.
The attack unfolded in the northwestern city of Rouen. Responding officers “neutralized” the man who was “clearly wanting to set fire to the city’s synagogue,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced in a post on X. He also congratulated officers for their “responsiveness and courage.”
Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said in his own post that there were “no victims other than the armed individual.”
