Trial opens over 1980 Paris synagogue bombing with suspect in absentia

An image taken on October 4, 1980 shows interior damage after a bomb exploded at the synagogue on the Rue Copernic in Paris. © AFP

A trial over an attack on a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and left dozens injured began in the French capital on Monday, with the suspect in absentia.

Four were killed and 46 wounded when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded outside a synagogue on Rue Copernic in the capital’s 16th arrondissement (district) on October 3, 1980.