The authorities have not said if they have any suspects in the vandalism, which took place Monday night or Tuesday morning in Herrlisheim, a town of fewer than 5,000 people a few miles from Strasbourg, in the northeast corner of France.
The incident came at a tense time for the nation, shaken by what the authorities called a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Strasbourg on Tuesday, the “Yellow Vest” protests of recent weekends and a rise in anti-Semitic acts.
The market attack this week killed four people, left one person brain-dead and injured 11 others. The suspect, Chérif Chekatt, 29, was shot dead on Thursday night after a hunt by French security forces. He had been on a watch list out of concern he was being radicalized. That attack did not appear to involve anti-Semitism.
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