A Paris court has just slapped a Lebanese-Canadian sociology professor with a life sentence. Hassan Diab, 69 years old and living in Canada, got the maximum penalty for his alleged involvement in a 1980 bombing that killed four people at a synagogue in the French capital.
It was quiet in the courtroom as the sentence was declared, but some victims and their families could be seen embracing once the three-week trial concluded, AFP reported.
Prosecutors determined that there was “no possible doubt” that Diab was behind the tragic attack.
In the early evening of October 3, 1980, explosives placed on a motorcycle detonated near a synagogue on the Rue Copernic in Paris’s 16th district. The blast killed a passing student on a motorbike, a driver, an Israeli journalist, and a caretaker. Another 46 people were injured.
Chillingly, this attack was the…
