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イスラム過激派が犯行声明をあげ、イスラエル外相が唐突にフランス入りする理由になった事件であった。とりあえず、以下に記事をアップしておく。
Monday August 30, 7:58 PM
Jewish man arrested over arson at Paris Jewish centre
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040830/1/3msgs.html
French police confirmed that a man arrested in connection with what was first believed to be an anti-Semitic arson attack on a Jewish social center a week ago was a Jewish man who had worked there.
Police headquarters refused to identify the man taken into custody in connection with the August 22 attack, but investigators said the man had worked on occasion as a guard at the center, but that management wanted to fire him.
Investigators suggested that "resentment" over the loss of his job could have motivated the suspect, in his 50s, to torch the eastern Paris center out of revenge, but that explanation was not confirmed.
The man -- who was placed in preventive detention for up to 48 hours -- was "more or less homeless" and "mentally unstable", the sources said.
On August 22, the Jewish center was gutted in a massive blaze, and swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans like "The world would be pure if there were no more Jews" were scrawled inside.
The incident led the French government to declare war on racism and prompted a snap visit to Paris by Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who urged tougher punishment in France for the perpetrators of anti-Semitic acts.
Police said the fire could have been an "inside job", but were still looking into several theories.
The police statements seemed to confirm a report in Le Figaro newspaper on Monday, which said investigators were no longer treating the fire as an anti-Semitic attack, but were looking for a mentally unstable Jewish man.
Last month, a 23-year-old woman who claimed she had been the victim of a vicious anti-Semitic assault later admitted she had made up the entire incident, and was given a four-month suspended sentence for lying about it.