Police officer injured in explosion outside synagogue in France

The country's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the incident was ?clearly criminal?

A police officer was injured when a car exploded outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the French town of La Grande-Motte on Saturday morning, police have confirmed.

Shortly before the blast, two vehicles had been set alight; one of them reportedly contained a gas canister.

"An attempted arson, cle