PARIS: A French court ordered the release on Friday of pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years for the killing of two foreign diplomats.
The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the 1982 murders, would be released on Dec 6 provided he leaves France.
“In (a) decision dated today, the court granted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah conditional release from Dec 6, subject to the condition that he leaves French territory and not appear there again,” the prosecutors said.
Abdallah, a former guerilla in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was sentenced to life in prison for involvement in the murders of US military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.
Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2024
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