Posted on 04/21/2023 3:19:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris More than 42 years after the deadly bombing of a Paris synagogue, a court in Paris has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian university professor of carrying out the attack.
The judges decided that Hassan Diab, 69, was the young man who planted the motorcycle bomb in the Rue Copernic on 3 October 1980.
Four people were killed and 38 others wounded in the bombing.
Diab called his situation "Kafkaesque", Canadian media reported.
He refused to attend the trial but the judges gave him a life sentence.
Prosecutors had argued it was "beyond possible doubt" that he was behind the bombing. His supporters have condemned the trial as "manifestly unfair".
The Rue Copernic attack was the first to target Jews in France since World War Two, and became a template for many other similar attacks linked to militants in the Middle East in the years that followed.
The decades-long investigation became a byword both for protracted judicial confusion, as well as for the dogged determination of a handful of magistrates not to let the case be forgotten.
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Just another Jew killing peaceful raghead
Durham: Gosh, that’s so fast it’s incredible. I could never work that quickly.
The evidence described in the article seems very flimsy, seems to rest mostly on his passport (which he says he lost) in the hands of a senior member of a terrorist group. He has witnesses saying he was taking exams in Lebanon at the time of the bombing.
Did they ever catch the guys setting fire to all the churches in paris? Sulpice and Notre Dame i think?
He will be facing extradition - for the second time. He was sent from Canada to France, and kept in prison for several years awaiting trial, but then the French dropped the charges, in 2018. Then, the case was revived again.
I can’t see any real evidence that a Palestinian group was responsible (rather than French right-wing anarchist extremists, who were originally blamed.) And there is nothing conclusive to tie this man Diab to the bombing, or even to prove he was in France at that time.
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