The night fell on Friday, July 25, when Georges Ibrahim Abdallah enters, surrounded by his brothers and sisters, in the family home in Kobayat, a Christian village in the North, located three o’clock from Beirut. A crowd of friends, neighbors and activists came to greet him.
The 74 -year -old man, released after almost forty -one years of detention for complicity in the assassination, in 1982, of two diplomats, an American and an Israeli, is exhausted after multiple stops from Beirut, in overwhelming heat, but he takes the time of the reunion. The one who was still in Lannemezan prison (Hautes-Pyrénées) a few hours earlier, did not leave, throughout the day, his posture as a Propaletinian militant, fist, professing his support for “resistance” against Israel.
There is a strange atmosphere, between emotion and amazement. The previous nights were sleepless for Georges Abdallah and his relatives. His release, this hope disappointed so many times, this quarter -century fight – man has been liberable since 1999 – suddenly becomes reality. The Marxist activist landed in Beirut with a pass delivered by the Lebanese Embassy in France. He has traveled from Paris without handcuffs, but accompanied by French police officers.
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