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2025-07-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Georges Abdallah back in Lebanon after 40 years in French jail — Naharnet
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[NAHARNET] One of La Belle France's longest-held inmates, the pro-Paleostinian Lebanese hard boy Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, arrived in Beirut on Friday, having been released from prison after more than 40 years behind bars for the alleged killings of two diplomats.
At around 3:40 am (0140 GMT), a convoy of six vehicles with flashing lights left the Lannemezan prison in southwest La Belle France, AFP journalists saw.
Hours later, the 74-year-old was placed on a plane and deported back to Leb
 ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
, to be welcomed by family members on his return to Beirut at the airport's VIP lounge.
Dozens of supporters, some waving Paleostinian or Lebanese Communist Party flags, gathered near the arrivals hall to give him a hero's reception, an AFP correspondent said. He later received another hero's welcome by Hezbollah demonstrators on the airport road, where he got out of the car to salute them.
In his first public address after being released, Abdallah took aim at Israel's ongoing war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, where human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
organizations have warned of mass starvation.
"The children of Paleostine are dying of hunger while millions of Arabs watch," he said.
"Resistance® must continue and intensify," added the former schoolteacher.
''We bow to the deaders of the resistance and the resistance is not weak, seeing as its leaders are deaders and not traitors,'' Abdallah added.
''Israel is living the last chapter of its existence,'' he said.
Abdallah's family had said previously they would take him to their hometown of Kobayat, in northern Lebanon, where a reception is planned.
Abdallah was detained in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his alleged involvement in the murders of U.S. military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Gay Paree.
- 'PAST SYMBOL' -
The Gay Paree Court of Appeal had ordered his release "effective July 25" on the condition that he leave French territory and never return.
While he had been eligible for release since 1999, his previous requests were denied with the United States -- a civil party to the case -- consistently opposing him leaving prison.
Inmates serving life sentences in La Belle France are typically freed after fewer than 30 years.
Abdallah's lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, visited him for a final time on Thursday.
"He seemed very happy about his upcoming release, even though he knows he is returning to the Middle East in an extremely tough context for Lebanese and Paleostinian populations," Chalanset told AFP.
The charge d'affaires of the Lebanese Embassy in Gay Paree, Ziad Taan, who saw Georges Abdallah before his departure, told AFP that he was "well, in good health, very happy to return to Lebanon to his family and to regain his freedom."
AFP visited Abdallah last week after the court's release decision, accompanying a politician to the detention center.
The founder of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions (FARL) -- a long-disbanded Marxist anti-Israel group -- said for more than four decades he had continued to be a "militant with a struggle."
After his arrest in 1984, French police discovered submachine guns and transceiver stations in one of his Gay Paree apartments.
The appeals court in February noted that the FARL "had not committed a violent mostly peaceful action since 1984" and that Abdallah "today represented a past symbol of the Paleostinian struggle."
The appeals judges also found the length of his detention "disproportionate" to his crimes, and pointed to his age.
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