A Jewish school near Paris was gutted in a suspected arson attack Saturday. More than 60 firemen were called out in the early hours of Saturday morning after a fire was reported in the Mercaz Hatorah school in Gagny, north of the capital. The fire totally destroyed a former factory that the school was converting into an extension bloc.
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