A car explosion Wednesday near a Jewish school in Paris was not aimed at the school, police said. The car, which was parked on a residential street near the Moshe Sharett Israeli School in northwest Paris, exploded when the car’s owner, identified as a 55-year-old man with a criminal record, started the ignition, police said.
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