US EditionFrance’s Macron welcomes the arrest in the West Bank of Palestinian suspect in the 1982 Paris attack
- Palestinian authorities arrested 70-year-old Hicham Harb in the occupied West Bank this week for a 1982 terror attack in Paris's Jewish quarter.
- The arrest followed an international warrant issued in 2015 linked to the August 9, 1982 machine-gun and grenade attack on Jo Goldenberg restaurant.
- The assault killed six people and wounded 22, involved gunmen who threw a grenade and fired WZ-63 machine guns in Paris's Marais district.
- France’s anti-terror prosecutor called the arrest a “major procedural breakthrough,” while President Macron praised the cooperation with the Palestinian Authority.
- The arrest advances justice efforts complicated by political sensitivities, and France continues pursuit of other suspects believed abroad.
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43 years after the attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris, the authorities in the West Bank have arrested one of the main suspects. The time is probably no coincidence: in a few days, President Macron wants to recognize a Palestinian state.
Suspect in 1982 attack on Paris restaurant arrested in West Bank
France welcomed news on Friday that a suspect in an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 43 years ago, in which six people were killed and at least 20 others injured, had been detained by Palestinian authorities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot posted on X that the arrest had been made possible by President Emmanuel Macron's decision to recognise an independent Palestinian state on Monday, "enabling us to re…
France finds Palestinian suspect in 1982 terror attack on Paris Jewish restaurant
Over 40 years after a terror attack on kosher restaurant Jo Goldenberg in Paris, officials informed victims' families that a central suspect had been arrested in the West Bank and would likely be extradited. The bombing remains the deadliest antisemitic assault on French soil since World War II
Palestinian Authority arrests suspect in 1982 attack on Paris Jewish restaurant - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Palestinian Authority has arrested a key suspect in a deadly antisemitic terror attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday. The Palestinian suspect, Hicham Harb, 70, was arrested in the West Bank for allegedly orchestrating the Aug. 9, 1982, terror attack on Chez Jo Goldenberg in which militants threw a grenade into the crowded restaurant and fired machine guns at diners and pedestrians.…
Arrested in the West Bank as a Suspect in a Terrorist Attack on a Jewish Restaurant in Paris in 1982
He is believed to have led the attack that left six dead and to have been one of the gunmen who shot at customers.
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