On video: The trial of those involved in the 2015 attacks in Paris has begun (Photo: Reuters)
A court in Paris, France, today (Friday) sentenced the 69-year-old Lebanese-Canadian citizen, Prof. Hassan Diab, to life imprisonment, who was accused of carrying out an attack on a synagogue in Paris in 1980, in which the Israeli Aliza Shagir, three French citizens were murdered, and more than 46 people.
"There is no doubt that Diav, the only suspect who was behind the attack," claimed the prosecutors in their summary.
The attack took place in the early evening of October 3, 1980. During it, explosives placed on a motorcycle detonated near the synagogue on rue Copernicus in the fashionable 16th arrondissement of Paris.
These resulted in the death of the Israeli journalist and three locals.
The attack was the first deadly attack against a Jewish target on French soil since World War II.
No organization has ever claimed responsibility for the attack.
The scene of an attack in Paris in 2017 (Photo: Reuters)
No organization ever claimed responsibility for the incident, but the police suspected a group of activists of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupation in Palestine.
In 1999, French intelligence accused Diab, a professor of sociology, of preparing the ten kilogram bomb.
They presented a key piece of evidence against him - a passport in his name, seized in Rome in 1981, with entry and exit stamps from Spain, where they thought the attack originated.
In 2014, Canada extradited Diab at the request of the French authorities.
However, the investigation failed to conclusively prove his guilt and Diav was released.
Three years later, the French court overturned the previous decision and ordered that Diab stand trial for murder, attempted murder and destruction of terrorist property.
David Per, the lawyer for some of the Jewish worshipers who were present in the synagogue at the time of the explosion, said that his clients "are not motivated by revenge and were not looking for the head of a guilty person, they simply wanted justice to be done."
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