After 43 years, France tries suspected bombmaker in Paris synagogue killings
The trial of a 69-year-old Lebanese-Canadian charged over a fatal 1980 bomb attack outside a Paris synagogue has opened in France after more than four decades of legal wrangling, though the suspect remains a free man in Canada.
Hassan Diab, who denies any involvement in the attack which killed four and wounded dozens, told the court during preliminary hearings that he would not show up for the trial, after accusations against him had been dropped in an earlier investigation.
In the early evening of October 3, 1980, explosives placed on a motorcycle detonated close to a synagogue in Rue Copernic in Paris’s chic 16th district, killing four people — a student passing by on a motorbike, a driver, an Israeli journalist and a caretaker.
Forty-six people were injured in the blast. No organization ever claimed responsibility but police suspected a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
French intelligence in 1999 accused Diab, a sociology professor, of having made the 10-kilogram (22-pound) bomb and he was extradited from Canada in 2014.
However, investigating judges were unable to prove his guilt conclusively during the investigation and Diab was released, leaving France for Canada a free man in 2018.
In this file photo taken on January 17, 2018, Hassan Diab holds a press conference at Amnesty International Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, following his return to Canada. (Lars Hagberg / AFP)
Three years later, a French court overturned the earlier decision and ordered Diab to stand trial after all, on charges of murder, attempted murder and destruction of property in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
French authorities stopped short of issuing a new international arrest warrant for Diab, effectively leaving it up to him to attend his trial or not.
He could be sentenced to life in prison in absentia if found guilty.
The verdict is expected on April 21.
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