France convicts Canadian Hassan Diab for 1980 synagogue bombing, seeks arrest – National | 24CA News

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Published 21.04.2023
France convicts Canadian Hassan Diab for 1980 synagogue bombing, seeks arrest – National | 24CA News

Supporters of Hassan Diab are calling on Canada to refuse any new extradition request from France after a courtroom discovered the Ottawa sociology professor responsible of a 1980 bombing.

Diab, who has all the time maintained innocence, was tried in absentia in Paris for the assault on a synagogue that killed 4 and wounded 46.

A French courtroom sentenced Diab to life in jail in the present day and issued an arrest warrant for him.

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Following prolonged proceedings that went all the way in which to the Supreme Court of Canada, Diab was extradited to France the place he spent three years behind bars, together with time in solitary confinement.

French judges dismissed the allegations towards him in January 2018 and ordered his rapid launch, permitting him to return to Ottawa the place he lives together with his spouse and youngsters.

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In May 2021, a French courtroom upheld a call directing Diab to face trial, a ruling his Canadian lawyer known as inexplicable.

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