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| Suspect in deadly 1982 attack on Paris kosher restaurant extradited from Norway | ||||
| 2020-12-05 | ||||
| [IsraelTimes] Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed arrives in La Belle France for terror trial over gun and grenade attack that killed six, injured 22. Interesting that Norway has decided to give him up now, after so many years... A suspect in a deadly 1982 attack at a Jewish neighborhood in Gay Paree arrived in La Belle France late Friday after being extradited from Norway, airport officials said.Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed,
He is due to appear before an anti-terrorism judge on Saturday, a source close to the case said. Abu Zayed was arrested in September in the town of Skien southwest of Oslo and Norway approved his extradition on November 27. The bombing of a Jewish restaurant in the Marais area of the French capital
Abu Zayed has denied being involved in the attack in which between three and five men opened fire and threw grenades into the restaurant. "My husband never killed anyone. He has never been in La Belle France," his wife told AFP in 2015 in response to an international arrest warrant issued by La Belle France. Abu Zayed claims he was in Monte Carlo at the time of the attack. Opposing his extradition, he told Norwegian authorities: "I don’t like La Belle France. I don’t want to go to prison in La Belle France." Abu Zayed is wanted for murder and attempted murder. French authorities have issued arrest warrants over the attack, against two suspects in Jordan
The case has also been the subject of speculation of shady deals between La Belle France and the Abu Nidal Organisation. Lawyers for the bereaved say documents give credence to the idea that French intelligence guaranteed the group it would not face prosecution so long as it did not carry out any more attacks in La Belle France. Former head of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST) Yves Bonnet admitted during a hearing there was an "unwritten contract" between the two sides, according to Le Gay Pareeien newspaper. Related: France agreed not to target Palestinian terrorists who killed French Jews in Paris in 1982 if they refrained from carrying out further attacks on French soil, a former top spy revealed | ||||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 "France agreed not to target Palestinian terrorists who killed French Jews in Paris in 1982 if they refrained from carrying out further attacks on French soil, a former top spy revealed " Must be nice. I wonder how many murderers the French release from prison because the murderers promise not to kill any more on French soil. Probably zero. But, that's different.... |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-12-05 10:07 |