This Friday, March 5 in the morning, a 60-year-old man was taken into police custody in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) after being intercepted with knife in hand by the security personnel of a Jewish establishment in the city. , the Yavne school.
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While some media report an attempted intrusion into this Jewish school and a kosher grocery store on Boulevard Barry (13th arrondissement), a police source contacted calls for caution until the facts are established.
Reinforced security measures
The prefecture of police of Bouches-du-Rhône also indicates to
Figaro
that the man did not try to enter the school or the grocery store.
"As a precautionary measure
,
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the police headquarters still reinforced security at sites linked to the Jewish community in the department, and sent a police crew in front of the school for the day.
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The sixty-year-old, unknown to the intelligence services, would have got out of his car with a small kitchen knife in his hand.
He allegedly made no threats, word or deed, and did not resist when he was intercepted by security personnel.
An investigation was opened by the prosecution and entrusted to the Departmental Security of Marseille.