Paris: bombing of the Rue des Rosiers, three suspects finally identified

This is what is called a legal long-term work. More than 32 years after the fact, three suspects were eventually identified and located in the investigation into the bloody attack on the rue des Rosiers in Paris. These are men who now live in the West Bank, Jordan and Norway. The French anti-terrorist judge Marc Trévidic, who took over the investigation by getting support by officers of the Directorate General of Internal Security, launched against them international arrest warrants on 20 February.

The attack on August 9, 1982 was conducted by a group of at least three men armed with machine pistols. By mid-day they first threw a grenade in Jewish grocery Jo Goldenberg, which adjoined his restaurant in the heart of the Marais district of Paris. Two terrorists were then entered into the facility by opening fire indiscriminately on staff and customers. Heavy toll: six dead and 22 injured. The killers had managed to escape continuing to pull in the Rue des Rosiers.

The weekly Paris Match reveals the identity of the three suspects prosecuted, that would have been located through anonymous testimony. Waleed Abdulrahman, alias Abu Zayed, 56 years old, live in Oslo and has acquired Norwegian citizenship, Mahmoud Abed Khader, aka Hicham Harb, 60 years old, would be in Ramallah, in the Palestinian territory in the West Bank; they are believed to be the shooters. The third man, Mohamed al-Abassi Souhair, alias Amjad Atta, 64 years old, reside in Jordan; he would have organized the logistics without participating in the killing. The bombing of the Rue des Rosiers was attributed to the Abu Nidal Organization, a splinter Palestinian armed group of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) of Yasser Arafat.

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