Last week we noted a report that the car of Aissa Dermouche, the French Muslim leader appointed by Jacques Chirac to a high administrative position, had been bombed.

Yesterday another “small blast” damaged a well known business school formerly headed by Dermouche: Small Blast Damages French School.

NANTES, France - An explosion early Sunday damaged a business school formerly headed by a Muslim who was recently appointed a top administrator in France. The man’s car was bombed a week ago.

Police immediately cordoned off the area around the Audencia school and opened an investigation. The explosion damaged a door and some windows of the school.

Prosecutor Jean-Marie Huet said on LCI television that authorities were looking into whether the two blasts were linked. Lab experts were sent to this western city from Paris to determine whether material used in the 6:15 a.m. blast was the same as that used to destroy the car of Aissa Dermouche.

Dermouche, 57, born in Algeria, was named to the prestigious post of prefect, the state’s highest representative of a region, on Jan. 14 by President Jacques Chirac. He is the first person of Muslim origin to be appointed to the post.

Four days later, his car, parked on a street near his home, was blown up.