Jewish community centre burned in attack

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.

No one was hurt as flames tore through the centre on the first floor of a six-story building. The centre, a meeting place and cafeteria for the elderly and disadvantaged, was gutted, rescue officials said.

Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and other top officials visited the centre, the latest target in a years-long wave of anti-Jewish attacks in France.