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  • British Court Quashes Extradition to France of Algerian suspect

    06/27/2002 2:56:06 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 2 replies · 286+ views
    Europe Daily ^ | June 27 2002 | AP
    LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court ruled Thursday against extraditing an Algerian man wanted for a series of bombings on the Paris subway, overturning a government decision to hand the suspect over to French authorities. Rachid Ramda, an alleged member of Algeria's Armed Islamic Group, is wanted in France in connection with bombings in 1995 that killed 10 people and injured 180. The attacks terrorized France and put soldiers in the streets. In the deadliest explosion, at the St. Michel metro station on July 25, 1995, eight people were killed and more than 30 were injured. Ramda's lawyers argued there...