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

A Lebanese-Canadian academic has been convicted in absentia of terrorism charges and sentenced to life in prison over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46.The court in the French capital issued an arrest warrant...

Paris court gives Canada-based professor life for 1980 synagogue bomb

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

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

A Paris court on Friday sentenced a Lebanese-Canadian sociology professor to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in the French capital that left four people dead.The court followed the prosecutors' request for the maximum possible punishment against Hassan Diab, now 69 and a resident of Canada, a decision that was met with silence in court.Some victims and their families could be seen embracing at the end of three weeks of proceedings during which the suspect&#039...

Hassan Diab and his supporters say guilty verdict in fatal 1980 Paris attack amounts to a ‘wrongful conviction’.

Lebanese-Canadian professor Hassan Diab was convicted in absentia of a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing, for which a French court handed down a life sentence.

Hassan Diab, 69, a Lebanese-Canadian, is the only person ever accused in connection with the 1980 blast, which took place outside a Copernic synagogue in Paris and killed four people.

The 1980 bombing was the first deadly attack against a Jewish target on French soil since World War II.