The parquet parquet of Paris is appearing in cassation

French justice has ordered the liberation of the Lebanese activist Propaletinian Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. For example, sentenced in 1987 for complicity in the assassination of Israeli and American diplomats in Paris, and one of the oldest detainees in France after 40 years in prison. Nevertheless, A decision challenged by the Paris general prosecutor’s office.

The Paris public prosecutor’s office announces. Meanwhile, in a press release published this Monday, July 21, appeal to the cassation to challenge the liberation of the Lebanese activist Propalenian Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, condemned in 1987 for complicity in the assassination of Israeli and American diplomats in Paris.

The prosecution considers that the release of that. Therefore, scheduled for July 25, which is one of the oldest prisoners in France after 40 years in prison “is not in accordance with the case law of the criminal chamber of the Court of Cassation parquet parquet paris appearing cassation according to which a person sentenced to life imprisonment for facts of terrorism cannot benefit from a parole without probationary measure”.

“This remedy does not suspend the execution of the decision. However, ” said the prosecution, and therefore would not prevent Georges Abdallah from returning to Lebanon.

“We would never have imagined that he would finally be released” – Parquet parquet paris appearing cassation

“If they agreed to free me. it is thanks to this mobilization (of activists) which is ascending,” reacted Georges Abdallah, 74, during an exchange with the deputy LFI Andrée Taurinya, during a visit to the parliamentarian in the prison.

“The time spent behind bars concerning the prisoners ‘political’ does not weigh. you spend five years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, this is not the cause of the exit in fact,” said Georges Abdallah, from his 11m2 cell lined with a portrait of Che Guevara and posters in favor of the Palestinian parquet parquet paris appearing cassation cause.

“We are very happy with this decision,” had previously assured AFP since Lebanon his brother, Robert Abdallah. “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.

A dozen requests for released released

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 parquet parquet paris appearing cassation village in North Lebanon no longer had any risk of public order disorder.

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 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 described 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 “today represents a past symbol of the Palestinian struggle”.