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Canadian professor held over deadly 1980 synagogue bombing in Paris
By News Agencies
Tags: Israel News, Jewish World 

Canadian police arrested a University of Ottawa sociology professor Thursday in connection with the 1980 bombing that killed four people and more than 20 wounded outside a Paris synagogue.

Hassan Diab, 54, was taken into custody by agents of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada's national police force, at his home in Gatineau, Quebec, Diab's lawyer, Rene Duval, told the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.

RCMP confirmed that the arrest was made by members of a Canadian anti-terrorism team cooperating with a French investigation, carrying out a provisional arrest warrant under Canada's Extradition Act.
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"This is a French investigation," RCMP Corporal Jean Hainey said. "The RCMP was simply providing assistance under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty."

Hainey refused to identify the man arrested as Diab.

The bombing on October 3, 1980, outside the Copernic Road Synagogue in Paris, killed three French men and a young Israeli woman.

The bomb was placed in a bag attached to a motorbike that was parked outside the synagogue in a street called Rue Copernic, in the posh 16th district of Paris.

The bomb exploded just minutes before a crowd of people were due to emerge from the synagogue. The attack took place on a Friday night, at the start of the Jewish Sabbath.

Twenty other people were wounded in the bombing, which was not claimed by any group.

According to L'Express, French investigators suspect that the bombing was organized by a small Palestinian militant group that was at odds with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization.

Duval said, Diab, a Lebanese-Canadian who works part-time as a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University in Ottawa, is expected to appear in court Friday afternoon.

Two French judges issued an international arrest warrant against Diab earlier this month. Under Canadian law, French authorities have 45 days to add further evidence to support an extradition request.

Canadian police were not immediately available to comment.

L'Express said Diab had dual Lebanese and Canadian citizenship and was a sociology lecturer at a university in Ottawa.

A team of French police, magistrates and intelligence officers were in Canada were reportedly working on the case and would try to arrange Diab's extradition to France
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  1.   "...sociology lecturer at a university in Ottawa" 23:30  |  yesfolks that`sright 13/11/08
  2.   great news 00:01  |  alan 14/11/08
  3.   RE: Alan 00:40  |  judith 14/11/08
  4.   I agree Judith... 01:56  |  Ben 14/11/08
  5.   These are the type of Profs 02:50  |  Berkeley Student 14/11/08
  6.   Hi UCB Student --- I was there too 03:12  |  Daniel Remler 14/11/08
  7.   judith 3 03:59  |  alan 14/11/08
  8.   Alan #7 04:36  |  Sol 14/11/08
  9.   to Alan 04:45  |  Gordon 14/11/08
  10.   judith 05:13  |  barney 14/11/08
  11.   notice, the terrorist is neither poor nor undeucated 06:49  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/11/08
  12.   After 28 years, chances for conviction are poor 07:01  |  robert 14/11/08
  13.   Another PLO murderer and plane kidnapper lives happily in Canada 07:24  |  Dan 14/11/08
  14.   Poisoning the minds of the Canadian students 07:26  |  x-ray 14/11/08
  15.   To Robert 07:32  |  Gordon 14/11/08
  16.   Gordon 07:40  |  alan 14/11/08
  17.   Very revolutionary chique,will look good to leftist on his resume 08:28  |  PETER SM 14/11/08
  18.   To all those who believe that only the oppressed are terrorists 09:54  |  Kobi 14/11/08
  19.   Kobi: Oxford`s bad but not that bad... 11:54  |  Sean 14/11/08
  20.   Just Imagine if he were a pedophile? 12:17  |  FOX 14/11/08
  21.   He`s innocent until proven guilty in Canada 14:49  |  POP 14/11/08
  22.   It is good that this man was finally caught but... 15:10  |  Matt C 14/11/08
  23.   i agree with judith and gordon 15:31  |  mike the dolphin 14/11/08
  24.   DOES THE NAME EICHMAN RING A BELL? 15:33  |  PETRA 14/11/08
  25.   Fox, the terrorists are the worst child abusers 15:40  |  Petra 14/11/08
  26.   #15 POP hol ................Innocent yes? 17:31  |  Joe Moer 14/11/08
  27.   UCSB also 17:33  |  Henry J. Cittone 14/11/08
  28.   pop : hahahaha! 17:36  |  Gabriel 14/11/08
  29.   Quite common really 17:42  |  Jackie 14/11/08
  30.   Bring him to Israel. France will honor him with medal of honor 18:21  |  Yacov 14/11/08
  31.   Alan and barney are correct 20:27  |  jenna 14/11/08
  32.   #10 Cipora, Very good point 22:28  |  Maronite 14/11/08
  33.   FRANCE 22:53  |  CANOE 14/11/08
  34.   you posters sound like a lynch mob 23:39  |  David M 14/11/08
  35.   to Matt C and Ben 23:51  |  Peter 14/11/08
  36.   Cool !!!!!! Now let`s see the evidence. 01:24  |  MIKE 15/11/08
  37.   Canadian (?) professor 04:07  |  MIKE 15/11/08
  38.   #21 - Right POP, but... 09:28  |  JES 15/11/08
  39.   #32, Maronite 10:15  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/11/08
  40.   Take a deep breath and THINK 06:03  |  D 16/11/08
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