Terrorist convicted of murdering 4 in Paris synagogue is lecturer at Canadian university

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkj6jwh11je

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  2. Oh boy the bots love spreading this disinformation. 
     He was extradited from canada to France, convicted. Imprisoned for 3 years then released because a lack of evidence. 

     Returned to canada. Then france had a trial in absentia which found him guilty   

    Canada does not recognize trial in absentia as legal

  3. The only thing more dangerous than this guy will be the dozens, if not hundreds of social justice warriors (you know the type), that will be in the audience…nodding their heads, applauding and hanging (heh) on his every word.

    What the fuck is wrong with Canada????

  5. “will lecture on “social justice in action.” ”

    Ummm…

  6. Canada is clearly not a fan of Jews anymore, I’m gonna have to leave.

  8. And then we have all those usefull idiots protesting things they know nothing about, because the people who teach them are this kind of people.

    Not talking just about the actual terrorist teaching sociolgy but the university that dont care and let him.
    Justice for the 4 victims he murdered? They dont care as long as what he says fits the narative. Shameful

  9. The global economy is so bad even terrorists need second and third jobs, smh

  10. Has France officially requested his extradition again? I know they officially found him guilty of terrorism charges last year but can’t find anything up to date online?

  11. Looks like even Carlton U is politically involved in trying to prevent his extradition. Must be lots of Qatar money flowing their way.

  12. i see a MOSAD magic trick and him in a court in Tel Aviv the next day

  15. How did that guy even get a visa to step foot in your country? A criminal record of multiple murder, surely should mean he is not of good enough character to get a foot inside the border.

  16. Charges were dropped in 2018 by a French judge for lack of evidence. Diab then left France for Canada. Then when the prosecutors in France appealed the case and Diab was convicted in absentia. Then France tried to extradite Diab. At that point a Canadian judge determined that the charges should be dropped for lack of evidence. So two judges, on French and one Canadian have dismissed the charges at different times. Evidence includes eye witness accounts from back in 1980 and association with Palestinian Liberation organization which Diab denies. I don’t know. Seems like a real shit show. I’d have to look into the actual evidence. Suffice to say two Judges determined there was a lack of evidence and the appeal had to be taken to the “higher” courts in France which are inevitably more political than the lower courts.

  18. I’ll preface this by saying that I am Israeli and am pro-Israeli.

    The article says that he was convicted in a trial in-absentia by a panel of judges “some of whom specialize in terrorism”, which is an ass-covering statement if I ever heard one. The reason why the trial was in-absentia was that he had run away to Canada the day that he was put on house arrest by the French. As much as I would like to see a terrorist tarred, feathered, and then be prevented from lecturing on “social justice in action” as a fucking terrorist, I personally can’t make the conclusion that he 100% bombed the synagogue just because he avoided the trial. In his place I wouldn’t like my chances either.

    Am I just being a contrarian or is labeling him a terrorist kind of dubious?

  20. Looks more like political target. The investigation was not able to find the terrorists. They didn’t like this guy’s political stance. They merged two unrelated case into one and baam “this is the terrorist”. You close two cases at once. They do it in Turkey too.

  21. He has Canadian citizenship and was convicted in abstentia. Of course the Canadian government isn’t going to send a citizen to France for a prison sentence.

  22. For a little bit of background info.

    – France requested extradition in 2008 for the 1980 bombing
    – Was extradited to France in 2014
    – Case was dismissed in 2018 after a judge found a lack of evidence
    – Hassan returned to Canada in 2018
    – In 2021 an appeal reversed the dismissal decision
    – In 2023 Hassan was convicted in abstentia

    The evidence against Hassan are the following
    – Witness sketch that resembles Hassan
    – Hotel registration with handwriting that resembles Hassan’s
    – A passport with Hassan’s name was discovered in the possession of another terrorist

    Hassan’s defense
    – Fingerprint evidence that exculpated him was not admitted into evidence
    – He claims he was at a University in Lebanon when the attacks happened
    – The consensus of handwriting experts were inconclusive and that French authorities attempted to cherry pick favorable handwriting experts in order to get a conviction

  23. This article is terrible, it contains some outright falsehoods (making it seem like he’s a fugitive skipping bail, instead of the fact that the first panel of French judges dismissed his charges) and omits the entirety of the controversy over how weak the case was.

    There is a reason France hasn’t made a second attempt to extradite him, despite the ‘trial’ in absentia finding him guilty. The decision to reinstate charges was a highly politicized process driven the families of the victims, and Canadian courts were already skeptical during the first extradition – and only reluctantly approved it – given how weak the evidence was.

    **FOR MORE CLARITY**

    If you remotely look into this it becomes very clear that this entire trial and prosecution was a kangaroo court proceeding with a predetermined outcome, and he was right to not return to France.

    * The smoking gun from the French was “handwriting analysis” which has been heavily critiqued by experts and viewed skeptically by Canadian judges.
    * The French withheld fingerprint evidence from the defence that would have proven his innocence
    * He was literally not even France at the time of the attack, he has a rock solid albi (proven by university records) that he was in Lebanon writing his exams at the time.
    * After the first panel of judges dismissed charges (freeing him, therefore he was not a fugitive when he returned to Canada, after having years of his life taken over baseless charges) there was intense political pressure campaign by the families of the victims and NGOs to reinstate charges.)

    [Here is a better and more balanced article](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6817944).

  24. The Canadian Department of Justice has long held that Hassan Diab is being railroaded in an extremely weak case based on circumstantial evidence that has been contradicted by several eyewitnesses.

    You can watch Senator Marilou McPhedran posing questions about Diab’s during the October 9, 2024, session of the Senate of Canada.

    An [independent report commissioned by the Canadian DOJ](https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/ext/01/review_extradition_hassan_diab.pdf) reports that:

    *”France’s case against Dr. Diab was circumstantial. It rested primarily on five pieces of evidence:*

    * *A copy of Hassan Diab’s old passport, which showed an entry into and exit from Spain close in time to the bombing in France*
    * *Witness statements from former friends of Hassan Diab’s identifying him as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine*
    * *Eyewitness descriptions of a man using the pseudonym Alexander Panadriyu, who was clearly linked to the bombing on Rue Copernic*
    * *Composite sketches of Panadriyu and their purported similarity to contemporaneous photographs of Hassan Diab*
    * *A handwriting comparison analysis prepared by a French expert that concluded Hassan Diab was the likely author of a small number of words the fictitious Panadriyu had printed on a hotel registration card.”*

    Diab was convicted in absentia by a panel of French anti-terrorism judges. France’s criminal justice system is considered inquisitorial rather than adversarial (although French courts have adopted some adversarial elements), so he was convicted by a panel of anti-terrorism judges, without a jury trial (there was no guarantee that if Diab stayed to face trial, he would have been granted a jury trial).

    I don’t know if Diab did it or not, but the Canadian DOJ has reasons to conclude that France did not follow Canadian standards of justice here, and it’s standard policy for any country to refuse to extradite people on that basis. Israel, too, harbors Jewish terrorists who have been convicted in America.

  26. For anyone wondering about the legal complexities of this case, Diab was not actually implicated in the Copernic attack until 1999, 19 years after it took place, because he matched a description/police sketch. There was also a hotel registration form with handwriting similar to his, which has been analysed by multiple experts and different conclusions reached.

    He was arrested in Canada in 2008 and extradited to France in 2014, and spent several more years in jail awaiting trial.

    The article linked in this post appears to get some of the legal timeline incorrect – Diab didn’t flee house arrest and go back to Canada; a French judge dismissed the charges against him in 2018. He was free to return to Canada according to [CBC reporting](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/charges-dropped-hassan-diab-1.4484443).

    The dismissal of charges was overturned in 2021; there was no international arrest warrant issued at the time per the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/world/europe/paris-synagogue-bombing.html?smid=nytcore-android-share) and Diab was tried in absentia by a different French court. The case hinged on Diab’s passport, which was seized in Rome in 1981 with a member of the PFPLO and showed entry and exit stamps for Spain, where the Copernic terrorists were believed to have fled. Diab had always maintained his innocence and that his passport was lost, and provided an alibi that he was sitting university exams in Beirut at the time of the bombing. The judge who dismissed the charges in 2018 found there was “consistent evidence” Diab was in Lebanon at the time of the Paris bombing.

    There was also some exculpatory evidence – palm prints taken from a vehicle used in the bombing were not a match for Diab, and neither were fingerprints taken from an arrest record for “Alexander Panadriyu” – the alias believed to be used for the Copernic bomber, per the [Canadian Department of Justice](https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/ext/01/p7.html) – this link provides a timeline of the case up to 2018/19.

    So essentially, Canada is in the position of having already extradited a citizen once, that person having charges dismissed and being allowed to return, and essentially then being asked to extradite a second time (with no new evidence introduced in the case). Even more complicated is that Diab cannot appeal the conviction and life sentence in France because he was tried in absentia.

  27. It appears he was originally determined to be innocent by a French court:

    > On January 12, 2018 the charges against Diab were dismissed, after a judge claimed he found evidence for his presence in Lebanon at the time consistent. Two days later, he returned to Canada.

    And then he was convicted in absentia in a second trial with evidence that Canadian officials deemed insufficient.

  30. as the saying goes… “Carlton University, where the ‘K’ stands for ‘Quality’ “.

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