(National-UAE) A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years after being convicted over the killing of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said.
The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the 1982 murders, would be released on December 6 on the condition that he leaves France.
French anti-terror prosecutors said in a statement to the National that they would appeal within 24 hours.
The founder of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF), which was an offshoot of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abdallah is the face of a violent period in France when attacks related to the Middle East were perpetrated regularly.
