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Palestinian authorities arrest suspect over 1982 antisemitic Paris attack

Hicham Harb is suspected of leading attackers in the gun assault on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris's Marais district, a historically Jewish quarter. © JOEL ROBINE / AFP

Paris (AFP) – Palestinian authorities have arrested a key suspect in an antisemitic attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris which left six people dead in 1982, French prosecutors said on Friday, as France gears up to recognise a Palestinian state.

The deadliest antisemitic atrocity in France since World War II was blamed on the Palestinian militant Abu Nidal Organisation, which was categorised as a terror group by the US and Europe.

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