Canadian academic to stand trial in France for deadly 1980 terrorist attack on Paris synagogue France’s highest court ruled that the evidence that led to Hassan Diab’s release from prison in 2018 was not sufficient to avoid a trial.
Former Ottawa professor sues Canada for extraditing him to France over synagogue bombing Hassan Diab spent three years in a Paris jail before his release due to compelling evidence that he was in Beirut at the time of the attack.
French Jews protest release of synagogue bombing suspect Hassan Diab, a Lebanese-Canadian academic, denies ties to the 1980 bombing that killed four people.