An explosion outside a synagogue in the south of France injured a police officer on Saturday morning, a spokesman for the gendarmerie said. No one inside the synagogue at La Grande-Motte on the Mediterranean coast near Montpellier was injured. The spokesman for the gendarmerie, a branch of the armed forces responsible for internal security in some areas, was initially unable to say anything about the motive – including whether it was an anti-Semitic attack. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, writing on X, said the attempt to set fire to the synagogue “was clearly criminal.” He assured “…