Prosecutors had said in their summing-up that there was “no possible doubt” that Hassan Diab was behind the attack. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - A Paris court on Friday sentenced Lebanese-Canadian citizen Hassan Diab to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in which four people died.
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 a student passing by on a motorbike, a driver, an Israeli journalist and a caretaker.The bombing was the first deadly attack against a Jewish target on French soil since World War II.
They pointed to Diab’s likeness with police sketches drawn at the time and handwriting analyses that they said confirmed him as a suspect.
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