A person accused of coordinating a 1982 assault on a Jewish restaurant in Paris that killed six individuals arrived in France Thursday after being extradited by the Palestinian Authority.
Hicham Harb, one in all 4 suspects sought in reference to the August 9, 1982 assault, was detained on arrival at an air base close to the capital and shall be formally notified of the warrant towards him on Friday, the nationwide anti-terrorist prosecution workplace stated in a press release.
The assault rocked the French capital’s traditionally Jewish Marais neighbourhood 44 years in the past, when a bunch of three to 5 males hurled a grenade contained in the Jo Goldenberg restaurant, then opened hearth on prospects, killing six individuals and wounding 22 others.
Harb, also called Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra – now aged 72 – was arrested by Palestinian authorities in September 2025, days earlier than French President Emmanuel Macron formally recognised a Palestinian state.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas stated later that 12 months that Harb can be extradited, telling newspaper Le Figaro that France’s resolution to grant recognition had created “an appropriate framework for this French request”.
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Following the extradition, Macron’s workplace thanked the Palestinian authorities in a press release for “their cooperation, their commitment to fighting terrorism, as president Abbas promised”.
The greater than 4 a long time elapsed because the assault “is too long”, stated a lawyer for victims’ households, David Pere, calling for the trial to be held as rapidly as potential.
The assault was attributed to the Fatah-Revolutionary Council (Fatah-RC) led by Abu Nidal, a Palestinian splinter group that broke away from the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Harb is believed to have been one of many coordinators of the assault.
In February, France’s Court of Cassation, the nation’s highest court docket, confirmed {that a} trial can be held over the 1982 assault towards two different Palestinians held in France, one in all whom has Norwegian citizenship.
Harb can be the topic of a 1988 German arrest warrant in reference to an assault at Frankfurt airport in 1985, and has been suspected by Italian investigators over an assault on a synagogue in Rome in 1982 by which a two-year-old was killed.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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