A German court jailed a Moroccan-born man for more than two years for an arson attack on a synagogue last October. A lawyer for Khalid Zaouaghi, a German resident, said his client “lost his self-control” after watching a television report about the death of a Palestinian youth in the Middle East conflict.
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