Documents from Matignon archives related to the 1982 rue des Rosiers bombing support the idea of a secret agreement between French intelligence and the Palestinian group responsible for the attack, AFP learned on Monday. September 7 with victims' lawyers.
Six people were killed and 22 wounded during this attack perpetrated in the historic Jewish quarter of Paris on August 9, 1982. Four suspects are still requested by French justice.
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The examining magistrate in charge of the investigation is interested in the repeated declarations of Yves Bonnet, boss of the Direction of the surveillance of the territory (DST, ex-DGSI) between November 1982 and 1985, according to which an "
unwritten market
Was concluded at the time with the Palestinian terrorist group Abou Nidal, guaranteeing them the absence of prosecution in France in exchange for their commitment not to commit any more attacks there.
According to Le Parisien, which revealed the information on Monday, documents from the archives of Matignon, precisely from the cabinet of Michel Rocard, and placed in the investigation file came to accredit the existence of such an agreement.
A written "black and white" agreement
Among these documents, an account of an "
interview with the Fatah Revolutionary Council
", the other name of the Abou Nidal group, dating from October 1985 and which, according to
Le Parisien
,
evokes
"
black and white an agreement made with the terrorist group and which protests against "non-compliance with previous commitments" by France
".
"
By reading the documents, we understand that there is an agreement,
" confirms to AFP Me Avi Bitton, who defends three former employees of the restaurant Jo Goldenberg, targeted by this attack with grenades and submachine guns.
"
What the latest documents reveal to us is that unfortunately the political will is perhaps insufficient when we see that there was probably some form of deal concluded with the terrorists,
" he adds.
While French justice has issued international arrest warrants against four suspects, two of whom are refugees in Jordan and one in Norway, “
we can fear that these extradition requests (...) are purely formal but that the government does not exert the necessary diplomatic pressure
”, worries the lawyer.
Faced with these "
proofs of the agreement
", "
the citizen is shocked, the lawyer does not care
", slice on his side Me Romain Boulet, lawyer for the sister of a victim.
The priority, according to him, is “
the execution of the arrest warrants and the holding of a trial.
We have names, addresses, we have to go get them,
”he asks.