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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: June 6, 2007 |
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Quebec provincial police are investigating the cause of a "suspicious" fire that destroyed a home in a Jewish resort area in Val-David north of Montreal early Tuesday morning, the CBC reported.
About 50 Hasidic families live in the area during the summer, and many of them, including the mayor, believe the fire was deliberately set, and was a hate crime.
Mayor Pierre Lapointe is convinced the fire was arson, partly because police have ruled that an earlier fire in the neighbourhood, on Saturday, was deliberately set and motivated by Jew-hatred. "When you aim at a house like that, once and twice, I think you want to scare people," he said. "It's very revolting to imagine that this can happen in our community."
However, police investigators have yet to determine officially the cause of Tuesday's fire, although they characterized it as "suspicious." The earlier fire, however, was definitely arson, said Quebec provincial police spokeswoman Isabelle Gendron. "At that time there was not much damage, but with the fire that occurred [Tuesday morning] there is nothing left," she said.
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