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Suspect in 1982 attack on Paris Jewish restaurant faces judge after extradition

Six people were killed when gunmen attacked the Jo Goldenberg Jewish restaurant in central Paris on 9 August 1982. © EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP

A suspect in the 1982 attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris that killed six people was due to be brought before a judge on Friday – a day after being extradited to France by the Palestinian Authority. The move reopens one of the country’s deadliest post-war cases of antisemitic violence, nearly 44 years later.

Hicham Harb, 72, was handed over on Thursday and detained on arrival near Paris. Anti-terror prosecutors are expected to formally notify him of the arrest warrant against him, the national anti-terrorist prosecution office said.

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