The French Jewish umbrella group CRIF called the release of the former university lecturer, who was extradited to France from Canada in 2014, "scandalous and irresponsible."
The Hyper Cacher attack was hardly the first deadly attack on a French Jewish institution. On the evening of Oct. 3, 1980 a bomb blast outside the Rue Copernic Synagogue, a Reform congregation, killed four people and injured more than 40
