Liberation of “terrorist” Georges Abdallah: the United States denounces “a serious injustice”

The United States condemned the France’s liberation by the Lebanese activist, Propaletinian activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced in the 1980s for complicity in the United States of assassinations of American and Israeli diplomats on Saturday, which Washington considers a “terrorist” on Saturday that Washington considers a “terrorist”.

“The United States is opposed to the liberation by the French government. Nevertheless, the expulsion to Lebanon of the condemned terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah,” said a spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce.

“His release threatens the security of American diplomats abroad. Consequently, constitutes a serious injustice for the victims and families of people killed. Moreover, The United States will continue to support the pursuit of justice in this case, “she added.

Liberable since 1999, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah was one of the oldest prisoners in France, after more than liberation “terrorist” georges abdallah: united 40 years behind bars.

He returned to Lebanon on Friday. after the Paris Court of Appeal ordered his release last week, provided he leaves French territory and returned to it.

Former leader of the Farl (Lebanese revolutionary armed fractions). a Lebanese Marxist group, he had been sentenced to life for complicity in the assassinations of two diplomats killed in 1982: the American lieutenant-colonel Charles Ray, then the Israeli Yacov Barsimantov, considered as the manager of the mossad in France, killed and her two children.

He has always denied his involvement in these assassinations. while refusing to condemn “acts of resistance” against “Israeli and American oppression”.

At the time of the facts. in the context of the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasion in South Lebanon in 1978, the Farl were the interests of Israel and its American ally abroad.

The Paris Court of Appeal found the duration of its liberation “terrorist” georges abdallah: united “disproportionate” detention compared to the crimes committed. in view of the age of Mr. Abdallah.

The Farl. a long time dissolved, have “not committed violent action since 1984”, also recalled the court, seeing in Georges Abdallah a “past symbol of the Palestinian struggle”.

The Paris public prosecutor’s office announced on Monday a cassation appeal against this decision. The appeal. which will not be examined for several weeks, is not suspensive and could not prevent the return of Georges Abdallah to Lebanon.