(AFP) — Two suspects involved in an attack on a synagogue in southern France at the weekend were charged late Wednesday and remain in custody, Paris anti-terror prosecutors said.
The charges come after two cars were set alight in a car park under a synagogue near the seaside resort of La Grande Motte, causing an explosion just 30 minutes before its Saturday service and injuring a police officer.
The main suspect, a 33-year-old Algerian identified as “EHK”, was charged with attempted terrorist murder committed on the grounds of race or religion and for criminal terrorism association, according to France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT).
A legal resident in France, EHK was not known to police.
In a statement, PNAT said that suspect EHK was “radicalised in the practice of his religion over several months” and had long harboured “a hate for…
