(CBC) France’s court of appeal has ordered Canadian academic Hassan Diab to stand trial in connection with a 40-year-old bombing attack outside a Paris synagogue — three years after a lower court set him free due to a lack of evidence.
Diab’s French lawyers said they plan to appeal the decision to France’s Supreme Court.
“The decision of the French court of appeal today is the continuation of a long odyssey of injustice,” his extradition lawyer, Donald Bayne, said at a news conference Wednesday.
“It’s devastating.”
Diab was accused by authorities of involvement in the 1980 Rue Copernic bombing, which killed four people and injured more than 40.
