A suspected arson attack on a French kosher grocery store revived fears over anti-Semitism on Wednesday, three years to the day since an assault on a Jewish supermarket by an Islamist gunman, reports RFI.
Prosecutors said the store in the southern Paris suburb of Créteil had caught fire overnight, days after it was hit by anti-Semitic graffiti.
"The damage is believed to be very severe," Créteil prosecutor Laure Beccuau told French news agency AFP, adding that investigators do not believe the fire was accidental.
The Promo & Destock store was one of two neighbouring kosher shops in Créteil that were daubed with swastikas last Wednesday.
The fire comes on the third anniversary of the attack on January 9, 2015, at a kosher supermarket in northern Paris by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly, who killed three customers and a Jewish employee.