Anti-terror prosecutors in France opened a probe on Sunday after at least one gun was found in a car parked near a synagogue in a Paris suburb.

France, home to Europe's largest Jewish population, has seen a surge of antisemitic crimes since the beginning Israel's war against the Palestinian military group, Hamas in Gaza.

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The discovery was made on Saturday in the northern Paris neighborhood of Sarcelles, which has a large Jewish population.

According to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, the gun found was a "military-grade weapon" and was found near one of the town's synagogues.