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Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

Diab was convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison for a terror attack outside a synagogue in the French capital that killed four and wounded 46. He claims he is a victim of mistaken identity and was in Lebanon at the time of the bombing.

Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, was tried in absentia.

A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46.