Arsonists burned a Jewish community centre in eastern Paris before dawn yesterday, leaving behind red graffiti with menacing anti-Semitic messages such as “Jews get out”, police said.

FRENCH police patrolled suburban trains yesterday and studied video from surveillance cameras, trying to track down six men who allegedly attacked a young mother and scrawled swastikas on her stomach.

A SMALL fire near the top of the Eiffel Tower was extinguished shortly after erupting yesterday, Paris police said. The fire caused panic among tourists but no injuries.