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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.

Madagascars former communications minister, who has been in prison since 2020, was sentenced in February to 30 more months in detention following a complaint from the business magnate Mamy

(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.

The court is expected to issue a decision in the next few weeks on whether to accept or reject the defendants' request to unfreeze their assets in Europe

Hassan Diab, who lives in Canada, accused of planting bomb outside premises that killed four and injured dozens on behalf of Palestinian terror group; he claims mistaken identity