Free Republic

Nov. 15, 2003 Arsonists torch Jewish school near Paris By MICHEL ZLOTOWSKI Jewish school destroyed by a fire early Saturday in Gagny, north of Paris Photo: AP Fire gutted the Merkaz HaTorah Jewish secondary school in the Paris suburb of Gagny in the Seine-Saint-Denis region Saturday morning at 3am. There were no injuries. Fire started simultaneously in two separate places on the first floor of the school where works were under way. A primary school and a kindergarten for 200 children were to be inaugurated there in January 2004. The arsonist or arsonists broke into the building through a ground...