Chemical on French synagogue keypad burns congregants

[Hal Bent]

Source: Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — French investigators are trying to identify a chemical applied to an electronic keypad at a Paris-area synagogue that burned more than a dozen congregants.

The Creteil prosecutor's office said Friday that analysis is still taking place on the substance, which caused light burns and eye irritation for the congregants at the synagogue in Bonneuil-sur-Marne late Monday. No one was hospitalized.

Jewish locations in France have been on high alert since the January attacks in Paris on a kosher supermarket and the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/236faef4225e42a79f158db4f3b55284/chemical-french-synagogue-keypad-burns-congregants

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An ISIS member or sympathizer as the culprit? Scary. But not nearly as scary as An Upstanding Member Of The Christian Community. We all know it's happened before!

[Demit]

1. Why would you say that? They don't know what happened yet.

Disgusting post.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Seriously? Are you that unread about anti-Semitic acts in Europe?

Where do you get your international news, the Onion?

Heck, even that Pope dude was decrying growing anti-Semitic acts in France and Germany.

[Demit]

3. Don't be snotty.

I am merely pointing out that you don't know what has happened yet in this case. So there was no need for the inflammatory statement at the end of your post.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. you call an informative post about a probable act of anti-semitism

disgusting? Not the act, but the report? Clearly, you have not been following international news closely. Methinks you have your priorities all screwed up.

[Demit]

8. I am referring to your comment at the end, not the news report.

If it is ISIS, it will be reported. If it is a Christian, it will be reported. Until then, your sarcastic comment about "upstanding member of the Christian community" is inflammatory. Not informative.

[briv1016]

4. If it was ISIS, they would've used a biological agent in more then one location.

Even a white supremacists group would have used a stronger chemical at multiple synagogues. More then likely it's a skinhead wannabe's teen prank.

[ck4829]

6. Sounds like it

I'm also willing to bet it was some sort of thing containing sodium hydroxide, it's easy to conceal and I remember getting some on my fingers, a small mishap doing an experiment, took a couple minutes for it to start burning. Very easy to procure.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. thought to be "tear gas, very diluted with water"

Initial analyses conducted on Tuesday disclosed that the poison used was “tear gas, very diluted with water.”

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/paris-jews-intentionally-poisoned/2015/12/17/

CS Gas is sold to the public in some European countries: http://www.security-discount.com/en/Defence-sprays/CS-Sprays