[IsraelTimes] A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Paleostinian Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, tossed in the clinkDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said.
The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves La Belle France, French anti-terror prosecutors said in a statement to AFP, adding that they would appeal.
"In (a) decision dated today, the court granted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah conditional release from December 6, subject to the condition that he leaves French territory and not appear there again," the prosecutors said.
But his release remains conditional on the outcome of the appeal by prosecutors, to be heard at a hearing on a date yet to be set.
Abdallah, a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the murders of US military attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.
Barsimantov’s killer, a woman wearing a white beret, fled into the Gay Paree subway after shooting him in the head in front of his wife and children at their apartment building. The diplomat was the second secretary for political affairs at the embassy.
Abdallah shot Ray, an assistant military attaché, outside Ray’s apartment building the same year.
Washington, a civil party to the case, has consistently opposed his release but Lebanese authorities have repeatedly said he should be freed from jail.
This was Abdallah’s 11th bid for release.
Abdallah, now 73, had been eligible to apply for parole since 1999 but all previous applications had been turned down, except in 2013 when he was granted release on the condition he was expelled from La Belle France.
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the then-interior minister Manuel Valls refused to go through with the order and Abdallah remained in jail.
The court’s decision on Friday is not conditional on the government issuing such an order, Abdallah’s lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, told AFP, hailing "a legal and a political victory".
"It’s not surprising that the prosecution is appealing, since they want him to die in prison," he added.
One of La Belle France’s longest-serving inmates, Abdallah has never expressed regret for his actions, claiming he was a fighter" and not a "criminal"
Wounded in 1978 during Israel’s invasion of Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers..., he joined the Marxist-Leninist PFLP, which carried out a string of plane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s. It is banned as a terror group by the US and EU.
| Yes, but then in 1979 Mr. Abdallah moved from the PFLP to the equally Marxist-Leninist Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction (LARF), which he led until France arrested him in 1984. |
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