There were three anti-Semitic attacks in France over the weekend. No one was hurt when a man opened fire in a kosher butcher shop on Saturday near the southern city of Toulouse. Earlier Saturday, vandals drove two cars into a synagogue in Lyon, setting the sanctuary on fire. In another incident, a French Jewish couple was injured in a weekend attack in the southern part of the country.
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