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The minister added that police presence outside French Jewish areas would be increased following the blast, and Darmanin and Attar would go to the site of the blast on Saturday.
Ramot Mayor Stephan Rossignol said CCTV captured someone setting fire to the car.
The blast occurred on the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest that runs from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, when many people normally attend synagogue services.
However, police sources said that no religious ceremony was taking place at the time of the incident.
Two doors of the synagogue were damaged in the explosion.
It is not yet clear how serious the officer’s injuries were.
This town near Montpellier has about 8,500 permanent residents, but the population swells during the summer tourist season.
The explosion came as France and other European countries were on high alert due to the war in Gaza.
Darmanin said this month that the government counted 887 anti-Semitic acts in France in the first half of 2024, almost three times the number in the same period of 2023.
France is the country with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel and the United States, and also the country with the largest Muslim population in the European Union.
The Representative Committee of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) called the bombing an “attempt to kill Jews.”
“Using gas canisters in a car at a time when worshippers were expected to arrive at the synagogue is more than a criminal act. It shows that they had the intention to kill,” CRIF president Yonatan Alfi told AFP.
Police have cordoned off the area around the synagogue.
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