Arsonists attack Jewish school outside Paris

[oberliner]

PARIS: Arsonists set fire Thursday to a Jewish school north of Paris that had been badly damaged in another arson attack in 2003, police said. No one was injured.

The overnight fire, which targeted a ground floor office at the Merkaz Hatorah school in suburban Gagny, was quickly extinguished, police said. Two other small fires were set nearby.

Police opened an investigation. CRIF, an umbrella group of France's Jewish organizations, asked investigators to shed all possible light on the case.

A November 2003 fire at Merkaz Hatorah destroyed around 3,000 square meters (32,300 square feet) of the school. At the time, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said the arson attack had "an anti-Semitic and obviously racist connotation."

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/09/europe/EU_GEN_France_School_Burned.php