Police kill man who set himself on fire outside Tunisian synagogue

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....olice kill man who set himself on fire outside Tunisian synagogue<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 25-1-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Tunis (Tunisia), Jan 25 (AP) A man set himself on fire in front of the Grand Synagogue in the Tunisian capital and was killed by police, the Interior Ministry said. A police officer and a passerby suffered burns. The man started the fire after sundown on Friday, around the time the synago....

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....gue holds Sabbath prayers. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the man advanced toward a law enforcement officer while ablaze, and a second officer opened fire to protect his colleague. The officer was hospitalized with burns, as was a passerby, the statement said. The ministry did not release the man's identity or potential motive for his act, saying only that he had unspecified ps....

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....ychiatric disorders. Tunisia was historically home to a large Jewish population, now estimated to number about 1,500 people. Jewish sites in Tunisia have been targeted in the past. A national guardsman killed five people at the 2,600-year-old El-Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba after an annual pilgrimage in 2023. Later that year, pro-Palestinian protesters vandalised a historic synagog....

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....ue and sanctuary in the southern town of El Hamma. And a garden was set ablaze last year outside the synagogue in the coastal city of Sfax. Tunisia's recent history was also marked by the self-immolation of a street vendor in 2010 in a protest linked to economic desperation, corruption and repression. Mohamed Bouazizi's act unleashed mass protests that led to the ouster of Tunisia's autocratic r....

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....uler and uprisings across the region known as the Arab Spring. (AP) PY PY<BR> News - Press release - PIB....