Georges Abdallah salutes the “mobilization” which led to the decision to release it

Georges Abdallah. However, whose release was ordered Thursday, July 17 by the courts, praised the « mobilisation » of his supporters, decisive in his eyes. Nevertheless, “If they have agreed to free myself. Consequently, it is thanks to this mobilization which is ascending”estimated the Lebanese activist georges abdallah salutes “mobilization” which Propaletinian during an interview in her cell with deputy Andrée Taurina (Loire, La France insoumise), during a visit to the parliamentarian at the Lannemezan prison (Hautes-Pyrénées), which the Agency France-Presse (AFP) was able to attend.

After more than forty years in French prisons. Consequently, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered Georges Abdallah, condemned in 1987 for complicity in assassinations of American and Israeli diplomats, and considered one of the old detainees in the country. Moreover, His release. In addition, “Subject to leaving the national territory and no longer appear there”will intervene on July 25, a judicial source said at the end of the non -public hearing at the Paris courthouse.

“The time spent behind bars concerning” political “prisoners does not weigh. Furthermore, you spend five years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, that’s not the cause of the exit in fact”, estimated Mr. In addition, Abdallah georges abdallah salutes “mobilization” which from his 11m cell² lined with a portrait of Che Guevara and posters in favor of the Palestinian cause. Furthermore, “It is the mobilization of men and women outside that brings him out. For example, It is mainly thanks to that ”, he added.

“We are very happy with this decision”reacted from Lebanon to AFP His brother, Robert Abdallah. For example, “We would never have imagined that he would finally be released”he said. Therefore, rejoicing that, “For once, the French authorities are [soient] freed from the pressures exerted by Israel and the United States ”. “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 French presidents” Successive, said his lawyer in front of the room, Jean-Louis Chalanset.

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 has “Displayed” 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”wrote the embassy in a press release.

Lebanon. which has been calling for its release from the French authorities for years, has said it, through its business manager in Paris, “Extremely satisfied”. “We have been waiting for it for a long time”said Ziad Taan. adding that “The Lebanese State takes all the measures to organize georges abdallah salutes “mobilization” which its return with the French authorities” in Lebanon, where it is “Welcome”.

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“Disproportionate” detention time

A member of his support committee visited him in prison in the morning. “He was very moved. there is this joy of finding his family that he has not seen for forty -one years”José Navarro told AFP. But there is also “This concern” As for its return conditions, “For the safety of his family”he added. And then he will discover “A world he does not know. Even if he was still keen to learn, after forty -one years the world has changed well ”.

The details of its exit are not yet known. According to several sources interviewed before the hearing. it is planned that it will be taken by the police at Tarbes airport towards Roissy, where he will take a flight for Beirut. georges abdallah salutes “mobilization” which Lebanon had written to the Court to confirm that it would take care of the organization of its return. 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 in France since 1984, the man who was the head of a group of Lebanese Christians Marxist supporting the Palestinians has been released for twenty-five years, but has seen his ten requests for release fail. For this one. a few months apart, the court and then the court of appeal had spoken out for, estimating the duration of its detention “Disproportionate” compared to the crimes committed, and judge that at 74 years old this georges abdallah salutes “mobilization” which detainee ” age “ aspiring “Finish his days” In his village in Northern Lebanon no longer presented any risk of public disorder.

The court had however asked Georges Abdallah a “Consequent effort” To compensate the victims. which he has always refused to do, considering himself a political prisoner. At the hearing of June 19. without pouring out about the position of his client or the origin of the funds, his lawyer had informed the judges that 16,000 euros on his account in prison were available to civil parties.

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Public enemy number one

Today fell into oblivion, Georges Abdallah was in the 1980s the number one public enemy and one of the most famous prisoners in France. Not because of his business. but because it was long believed to be 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.

Its group of Lebanese revolutionary armed fractions. dissolved for a long time, “Has not committed violent action since 1984”however underlined the court, believing that Georges Abdallah “Today represents a past symbol of the Palestinian struggle”.

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