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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kim Willsher in Paris

Lebanese-Canadian professor tried for 1980 Paris synagogue attack

Hassan Diab at a news conference in 2020.
Hassan Diab at a news conference in 2020. Photograph: The Canadian Press/Alamy

A Lebanese-Canadian university professor goes on trial in Paris on Monday accused of an attack on a synagogue more than 40 years ago that killed four people and injured 46 others.

Hassan Diab, 69, is the only person to have been accused in connection with the bomb blast outside the Copernic synagogue in 1980 where more than 300 people were worshipping.

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