Judges of anti-terrorist investigation ordered, Thursday, July 31, a trial before the Special Assize Court against six men suspected of being involved in the attack which had killed six people on rue des Rosiers in Paris in 1982, including Abu Zayed, the main suspect in the hands of justice, learned the France-Presse (AFP).
Two people were indicted in this case: Mr. Zayed, Norwegian of 66 -year -old Palestinian origin, considered one of the shooters and detained in France since 2020, as well as Hazza Taha, suspected of having hidden weapons at the time and under judicial control. Both dispute the facts.
“This decision is a scam. First for the victims, to whom we are shamefully believing that justice has found one of the officials of their pain. Then for the law, because this investigation is absolutely not over and this referral is for sole purpose to maintain our client in prison ”reacted to AFP the lawyers of Abu Zayed, Romain Ruiz and Bruno Gendrin. One of Mr. Taha’s lawyers did not immediately respond to AFP.
The other four suspects, Hicham Harb, Nizar Tawfiq Mussa Hamada, Amjad Atta and Nabil Othmane, located in the West Bank, Jordan and Kuwait are the subject of an arrest warrant.
In detail, the investigating magistrates order that Abayed, Hicham Harb, 70, who would have supervised the attack and would have been the shooter, and Nizar Tawfiq Mussa Hamada, 64, accused of having been one of the performers and member of the commando, be tried for assassinations. They retained the complicity of assassinations and attempted assassinations for Hazza Taha, 65, Amjad Atta, approximately 72, accused of having planned the attack, and Nabil Othmane, 72, implicated for the preparation.
The accusation order before the special assize court of the investigating judge was eagerly awaited by the civil parties, who have been waiting for a response from justice for over forty years.
On August 9, 1982, six people were killed and 22 injured in the explosion of a grenade in the Jo Goldenberg restaurant and then in a shooting, in the Marais district, perpetrated by a commando of at least three men. The attack was attributed to the revolutionary Fatah-Conseil (Fatah-CR) of Abu Nidal, a dissident Palestinian group of the Palestine Liberation Organization (OLP).
