The president of a progressive synagogue, Samantha Woll, 40, also close to local Democratic Party officials, was stabbed to death in Detroit, USA .

The motive and circumstances are still to be clarified but the crime, which occurred in the midst of the war in the Middle East and the return of terrorist attacks in Europe, frightens the Jewish community in the United States.

The first "exams on the victim's body showed multiple knife wounds and the investigation was therefore entrusted to the homicide crime squad", the police reported, specifying that "the motive for this murder remains unknown".

The woman was found dead with multiple stab wounds outside her home, police told CNN.

"We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll," the synagogue said.

(Unioneonline/D)

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