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2025-02-21 Europe
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French court postpones decision on freeing Lebanese terrorist who killed diplomats
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[IsraelTimes] Court says Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed in 1982 for murdering US and Israeli diplomats, hasn’t shown proof he’s compensated his victims’ families, amid repeated refusals to pay
A French court on Thursday postponed a much-awaited decision on freeing pro-Paleostinian Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jugged
anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not
40 years ago for the 1982 killings of an Israeli and US diplomat.
The Gay Paree appeals court, which had been scheduled to deliver its verdict on Thursday, said it needed more time and would now revisit the case on June 19.
Abdallah, 73, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.
The United States, a civil party to the case, has consistently opposed his release but Lebanese authorities have repeatedly said he should be freed from jail.
In November, a French court ordered his release conditional on Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, leaving La Belle France.
But La Belle France’s anti-terror prosecutors, arguing that he had not changed his political views, appealed the decision which was consequently suspended.
One of La Belle France’s longest-serving inmates, Abdallah has never expressed regret for his actions, claiming he was a "fighter" and not a "criminal"
Wounded in 1978 during Israel’s invasion of Leb
 ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
, he joined the Marxist-Leninist PFLP, which carried out a string of plane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s. It is banned as a terror group by the US and EU.
Then, in the late 1970s, Abdallah, a Christian, founded his terror group, the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF). It made contact with other extreme-left outfits, including Italia’s Red Brigades and the German Red Army Faction (RAF).
The appeals court said Thursday the delay was prompted by the unresolved question of whether Abdallah had proof that he had paid compensation to the plaintiffs, something he has consistently refused to do.
His lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, called the court’s motive "judicial pettiness."
He said imprisoned members of other krazed killer groups active in the 1970s and 80s — including "political prisoners" belonging to French group Action Directe, or Corsican and Basque Lions of Islam — had all been set free.
He added the court’s stance risked creating a "de facto life imprisonment."
Abdallah is one of the longest-serving prisoners in La Belle France- most convicts serving life sentences are freed after less than 30 years.
Several hundred people demonstrated on Thursday in Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
, around 100 kilometers (65 miles) from Abdallah’s prison, demanding his release.
Police, however, banned any such protests in the Gay Paree region, saying they feared a disturbance to public order because of "a tense social and international context."
Abdallah still enjoys some support from public figures in La Belle France, including left-wing deputies and Nobel prize-winning author Annie Ernaux, but has mostly been forgotten by the general public. 
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