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French Police Detain Suspect in Rue Copernic Synagogue Bombing

July 24, 1981
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French police have detained a suspect in the bombing last October of the Rue Copernic synagogue in which four people were killed. Police detained a Spanish national, Ernesto Mila Rodriguez, 24, in a south Paris hotel late last night and said he was questioned throughout the day.

Police declined to link Rodriguez with the Paris synagogue bombing and said the warrant was issued for general questioning by the French state security court. The court may hold suspects indefinitely without charging them. Rodriguez has been named in both the Spanish and French press as one of the men who left the bomb outside the synagogue. Police have said in the past they wished to question him but did not consider him a prime suspect.

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