(AP) France’s president on Friday welcomed the arrest this week in the occupied West Bank of a key Palestinian suspect in a 1982 terror attack in Paris, calling it the result of “excellent cooperation” with the Palestinian Authority.
The suspect, Hicham Harb, 70, was one of France’s most wanted men and a fugitive for decades. He is accused of overseeing the militants who stormed the Jo Goldenberg restaurant on Rue des Rosiers on Aug. 9, 1982, in a machine-gun and grenade attack that killed six people and wounded 22 — an assault that stunned the nation and scarred its Jewish community.
Attributed to the Abu Nidal Organization, a Palestinian militant group designated as terrorist by the United States and Europe, it remains the deadliest antisemitic attack in France since World War II. It shocked the nation and underscored the global reach of Palestinian militant groups at the time.
