(JTA) The courtroom was crowded but the defendant’s seat was empty on Monday as a landmark trial in French Jewish history got underway, nearly forty-three years after the synagogue bombing
An arrest warrant in the 1980 bombing that killed four people and wounded 46 was first issued for Diab, a Lebanese academic who lives in Canada, in 2008.
Jewish community awaits justice after 43 years despite absence of Hassan Diab, alleged orchestrator of blast that killed four people, who refused to travel from Canada to attend
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