{"id":6833,"date":"2026-04-17T08:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:06:14","slug":"pa-extradites-suspect-in-1982-paris-jewish-restaurant-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6833\/","title":{"rendered":"PA extradites suspect in 1982 Paris Jewish restaurant attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">The Palestinian Authority (PA) extradited on Thursday a suspect to France who is wanted over an attack against a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, his lawyer told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">\u201cHicham Harb\u2019s family contacted me today to inform me that they had been notified by the Palestinian Authority of his extradition to the French authorities,&#8221; Ammar Dweik told the news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">Harb is one of four suspects sought in connection with the attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the Marais, a Jewish neighborhood in Paris, on August 9, 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">A group of three to five terrorists hurled a grenade inside the restaurant before opening fire on customers, killing six people and wounding 22 others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">The attack was attributed to the Fatah-Revolutionary Council (Fatah-RC) led by Abu Nidal, a splinter group that broke away from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">Harb is believed to have been one of the coordinators of the assault. Palestinian authorities <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/415231\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced his arrest<\/a> in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">In an interview with French daily Le Figaro late in 2025, PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Harb would be extradited following France\u2019s recognition of the State of Palestine in September that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">He said the decision had created \u201can appropriate framework for this French request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">In February, France\u2019s Court of Cassation, the country\u2019s highest court, confirmed that a trial would be held over the 1982 attack against two other Palestinian Arabs held in France, one of whom has Norwegian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-fb708951=\"\" data-v-71e662ef-s=\"\">Harb is also the subject of a 1988 German arrest warrant in connection with an attack at Frankfurt airport in 1985, and has been suspected by Italian investigators over an attack on a synagogue in Rome in 1982 in which a two-year-old child was killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Palestinian Authority (PA) extradited on Thursday a suspect to France who is wanted over an attack against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5713,5,5712,30,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-6833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-chez-jo-goldenberg","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-palestinian-authority","11":"tag-paris","12":"tag-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}