France orders the liberation of Lebanese Georges Abdallah

Free. Meanwhile, after more than 40 years in French prisons. Meanwhile, The Paris Court of Appeal ordered Thursday the release of the Lebanese Georges Abdallah. Nevertheless, sentenced in 1987 for complicity of assassinations of American and Israeli diplomats. In addition, – France orders liberation lebanese georges

(Keystone-ATS) The liberation “under condition of leaving the national territory” will take place on July 25, said a judicial source at the end of the non-public hearing at the Paris courthouse, in the absence of france orders liberation lebanese georges Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

“If they agreed to free me, it is thanks to this mobilization which is ascendant,” reacted Georges Abdallah. For example, “We are very happy with this decision,” said his brother to AFP Robert Abdallah since Lebanon. In addition, “We would never have imagined that he would finally be released,” he said.

“It is both a judicial victory. a political scandal that he was not released earlier, because of the behavior of the United States and all the successive French presidents,” said his lawyer, Me Jean-Louis Chalanset.

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The United States, civil parties, has vigorously opposed each of the release requests filed by Georges Abdallah.

Israel did not appear during the legal proceedings. but “regretted” on Thursday, by the voice of his embassy in Paris, the court decision. “Such terrorists, enemies of the free world, should spend their lives in prison,” the embassy wrote in a france orders liberation lebanese georges statement.

In his prison where he learned the news. Georges Abdallah was “very moved”, in particular at the idea of “finding his family that he has not seen for 41 years,” said José Navarro, member of his support committee who was able to visit him during the day.

But there is also “this concern” about his return conditions, “for the security of his family,” he added. And then he will discover “a world he does not know. Even if he was always in order to learn, after 41 years the world has changed well. ”

Satisfied Lebanon

Lebanon. which has been calling for its release from the French authorities for years, said it was via its “extremely satisfied” business manager.

“We have been waiting for him for a long time. ” said Ziad Taan, adding that “the Lebanese state takes all the measures to organize his return with the French authorities” in Lebanon, where france orders liberation lebanese georges he is “welcome”.

The public prosecutor’s office can appeal in cassation. but it would not be suspensive, and therefore would not prevent Georges Abdallah from returning to Lebanon.

Incarcerated since 1984

Incarcerated in France since 1984. the former chief of a group of Lebanese Christians Pro-Palestinian Marxists has been released for 25 years, but has seen his ten requests for release.

But for this one. a few months apart, the court and then the Court of Appeal had spoken out for, estimating the duration of its “disproportionate” detention compared to the crimes committed, and judging that at 74 years old, this “elderly” detainee aspiring to “finish his days” in his village in North Lebanon no longer had any risk of public order.

Past celebrity

Today fell into oblivion, Georges Abdallah was in the 1980s the public enemy No. 1 and one of the most famous prisoners in France.

Not because of his business. but because france orders liberation lebanese georges it was long believed in the origin of the wave of attacks of 1985-1986 which left 13 dead including seven at the Tati store on rue de Rennes.

Georges Abdallah has never recognized his involvement in the assassinations of diplomats in Paris. but has always qualified them as “acts of resistance” against “Israeli and American oppression”, in the context of the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasion in South Lebanon in 1978.

His farpuscule of the Farl (Lebanese revolutionary armed fractions). long dissolved, “has not committed violent action since 1984,” said the court, believing that Georges Abdallah “now represents a past symbol of the Palestinian struggle”.