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A Paris court issues an arrest warrant for Hassan Diab over the bombing, but the Canadian-based professor denies wrongdoing, with his lawyers saying he was studying in Lebanon at the time of the attack. 

Hassan Diab denies involvement in attack that killed four and wounded 46

Professor Hassan Diab of Ottawa, Canada, has been convicted and sentenced in absentia for a 1980 bombing at a Paris synagogue, which killed four people and wounded 46.Diab perpetrated France's first antisemitic terror attack since World War II, and eluded investigators for decades.Jewish leaders in France are urging Canadian officials to serve Diab's arrest warrant,

A Paris court on Friday sentenced Lebanese-Canadian citizen Hassan Diab to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a sy

An academic has been found guilty of a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 which claimed the lives of four people and left 46 wounded.

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

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Most of the evidence presented against Lebanese-Canadian sociology professor Hassan Diab was based on intelligence sources, with his lawyers had again argued the case should be thrown out.

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.

Hassan Diab refused to leave Canada to attend the trial into the murder of four people.