Three international arrest warrants, 32 years after the rue des Rosiers

"It is very important, even if it is long after, for justice"

32 years after the bombing of the Rue des Rosiers, the survey, which trampled, accelerates. The new judge handling the case, Marc Trévidic, launched three international arrest warrants, through anonymous testimonies which have allowed the identification of suspects: three men of Palestinian origin, the elders of the group Abu Nidal, suspected of the attack. Two of the three men are believed to have been part of the commando. Mahmoud Abed Khader Adra alias "Hicham Harb ', 59, who now lives in Ramallah, West Bank, and Abdulrahman Abu Walid Zayed, aka" Othman Suhail ", 56, who lives in Norway. The third is Souhair Muhammad Khalid al-Hassan Abassi, aka "Amjar Atta" 62. This man installed in Jordan is believed to have supervised the attack.

These countries have not signed an extradition procedure with France. An obstacle according to Guillaume Denoix de Saint Marc, the French Association of Victims of Terrorism:

"Extradition procedures are complex and so this will be another battle, that of obtaining cate these persons can be heard by the judge. And it is very important, even if it is long after, to get justice. And therefore we will never let go. "

August 9, 1982, a grenade exploded in a restaurant in the Jewish quarter of Paris, in the middle of fifty clients. Then two gunmen opened fire. Bilan, 6 dead and 22 wounded.

"Every time I spend here, said Mustafa Benemmon, son of a victim, I see my dad, I see the name of my father and all, and others too. And that, to me I will never forget. I expect the French justice condemns it. "

According to former members of the terrorist group, the sponsor of the Rosiers street operation was Hafez Assad, Bashar's father, then president of Syria.