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The bombing, which took place on Oct. 3, 1980, was understood to be the first fatal antisemitic attack in France since the Holocaust.

Kate Anderson Daily Caller News Foundation A Canadian former sociology professor was sentenced to life in prison Friday after bombing a Jewish synagogue in Paris nearly 50 years earlier, according to The New York Times. On Oct. 3, 1980, a Reform Judaism synagogue in the Rue Copernic was bombed, killing four people who were outside,…

A Canadian former sociology professor was sentenced to life in prison Friday after bombing a Jewish synagogue in Paris nearly 50 years earlier.

The attack killed four and injured dozens. But decades of false leads, a lack of evidence and legal wrangling delayed a trial.

There is no evidence yet that Hassan Diab, an academic now living in Canada, will be extradited to France.

(JTA) The courtroom was crowded but the defendant’s seat was empty on Monday as a landmark trial in French Jewish history got underway, nearly forty-three years after the synagogue bombing

The trial of a 69-year-old Lebanese-Canadian charged over a fatal 1980 bomb attack outside a Paris synagogue opened on Monday after more than four decades of

An arrest warrant in the 1980 bombing that killed four people and wounded 46 was first issued for Diab, a Lebanese academic who lives in Canada, in 2008.

Jewish community awaits justice after 43 years despite absence of Hassan Diab, alleged orchestrator of blast that killed four people, who refused to travel from Canada to attend

“This is a gaping wound for the Jewish community and here in France people remember this horrible attack,” a historian said.