Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the lone suspect in a 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue goes on trial.
A Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the lone suspect in a 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue will go on trial Monday, nearly 43 years after four people were killed and 46 wounded in the unclaimed attack.
Diab, 69, has denied involvement in the attack and said he was at a university in Beirut at the time of the western Paris bombing. His supporters and lawyers inand Canada claim Diab has been wrongly pursued by the French judicial authorities as a victim of a mistaken identity. France’s court of appeal ruled in January 2021 that Diab must stand trial on terrorism-related charges. If convicted, he could receive a life sentence. A verdict is expected by April 21. He lives in Ottawa and will be tried in absentia.
“It’s a positive development that the trial is taking place, even if he will not be there and even if he is acquitted,” said Bernard Cahen, a lawyer for two families who lost loved ones.
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