A suspect in the rue des Rosiers bombing who had six dead in Paris in 1982 has appealed a court decision concerning an extradition from Norway, where he lives, to France. Monday his lawyer.
A Palestinian naturalized Norwegian in 1997, Walid Abdulrahman Abou Zayed, 61, is wanted by the French justice system who suspects him of being "one of the shooters of the attack" which also left 22 injured in the historic Jewish quarter of French capital.
He claims his innocence.
On Friday, the Oslo court of first instance ruled that the legal conditions were met for his extradition to France.
"We appealed," said Abu Zayed's lawyer Ole-Martin Meland, specifying that a written motivation would be filed Tuesday with the court of appeal.
The government may have to decide
Once the legal remedies have been exhausted, it will
ultimately be up
to the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, or even the government as a whole, to rule on a possible extradition to France.
On August 9, 1982, a commando group of three to five men threw a grenade into the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the “Pletzl”, a historic Jewish quarter in Paris, then opened fire in the establishment and against passers-by.
The operation was quickly attributed to the Fatah-Revolutionary Council (Fatah-CR) of Abu Nidal, a Palestinian dissident group of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
