Four people, including a Frenchman, were killed Tuesday night outside the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. A Tunisian maritime guard officer who opened fire. Two worshippers participating in a Jewish pilgrimage and two gendarmes died.

"Always, relentlessly, we will fight against anti-Semitic hatred," Emmanuel Macron reacted Wednesday after the attack. "The attack on the Ghriba synagogue shocks us. We think with sorrow of the victims, of the Tunisian people, of our friends. We stand with the family of our murdered compatriot," the French president added in a message posted on Twitter.

The France "condemns"

In a statement sent to 20 Minutes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "condemns in the strongest terms this heinous act." "We send our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and express our solidarity with the Tunisian people and the Tunisian authorities," the Quai d'Orsay said. Our embassy and our services are mobilized to provide support to the family of our compatriot and to our fellow citizens affected by this attack. »

The Senate, through the voice of its president Gérard Larcher and the Prime Minister, also expressed its emotion after the "abject attack", in the words of Gérard Larcher.

For its part, the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) called for a rally Wednesday in Paris, at 18 p.m. at Belleville metro, "to pay tribute to the victims of this anti-Semitic attack." Finally, the Consistory, in a statement, "castigates this act as cowardly as odious, came to desecrate this unique moment of prayer and union shared by hundreds of pilgrims gathered in the synagogue. "

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