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Good they Shot the Terrorist Dead
he was going to stab them

[French police have killed a man
after a synagogue was set on fire
in the north-western city of Rouen.

The man was armed with a knife and
a metallic tool and was shot after
he threatened officers,
the Rouen prosecutor said.
Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol
said the attack on the synagogue did
not just affect the Jewish community,
but the entire city was
"battered and in shock".

French reports say the suspect
was Algerian
and was appealing against
an order to leave France.

Police were called at around 06:45
(04:45 GMT) after smoke was seen
rising from the synagogue.
The attacker climbed on a large waste bin
and threw a petrol bomb through a
small window, setting the synagogue alight.

Two police officers reached the
scene fast, after the man was spotted
on security cameras.
The suspect was on the roof of the
synagogue when they arrived,
according to prosecutors.
After threatening the pair he threw
a chisel at them before jumping down
to the ground, brandishing a 25cm (10in) knife.

"The officer opened fire five times,
hitting the individual four times,"
said Rouen public prosecutor Frédéric Teillet,
explaining that he had seen the footage
on the security cameras.

Firefighters at the scene eventually
brought the fire under control inside
the synagogue in the historic centre of the city.
There appeared to be no victims other than
the armed man, the mayor said.

Damage inside the synagogue has been
described as significant. "I'm really upset,
it's catastrophic," said Natacha Benhaïm,
the head of Rouen's Jewish community
of some 150 families.]

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