PARIS — French intelligence agents arrested eight suspects Tuesday in the bombing of a Tunisian synagogue that killed 21 people in April, the Interior Ministry said.
Al Qaeda, the terrorist network the U.S. blames for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, claimed responsibility for the tanker truck explosion, which occurred outside the Ghriba synagogue on the southern Tunisian island of Djerba.
Documents seized during the arrests in suburbs of Lyon appear to directly link the suspects and the April 11 bombing, the Interior Ministry said.
French judicial sources said those arrested included friends and family of the 24-year-old truck driver, who was among those killed in the bombing, which authorities called a suicide attack.
