The arrest of the suspect is “a great relief”, reacts the president of CRIF Occitanie

The arrest, on Saturday evening, August 24, of the man suspected of being the author of the fire and explosion in front of the synagogue of La Grande-Motte in Hérault is “a great relief”reacts Perla Danan, regional president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions (CRIF) of Occitanie, Sunday August 25 on franceinfo. She thanks the police who arrested the suspect in a “extremely short deadline”.

“We are relieved. This gentleman, in the videos, did not have a shaking hand, it was prepared, timed”she continues. “We were very lucky that he got the time wrong because it would have been carnage.”estimates Perla Danan. At the time of the events, only five people were in the synagogue. There were no injuries, with the exception of a municipal police officer who was hit by “the blast” of the explosion.

The president of CRIF Occitanie fears that other attacks of this type will occur again but assures that everything is in place to strengthen the security of the Jewish community in France.

“It is not possible to say that, because we are Jewish in France, we must withdraw.”

Perla Danan, president of Crif Occitanie

to franceinfo

She denounces “the import” And “instrumentalization” of the conflict between Hamas and Israel in the Middle East, which is the cause – according to her – of the explosion of anti-Semitic acts since October 7. “We have here the result of the excessive words of certain political parties who have exploited the conflict, it is murderous for the Republic and for our values ​​and it is even more murderous for the Jewish community”she concluded.