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Thirty-seven years after the bombing of rue des Rosiers in Paris, an ex-intelligence chief has revealed that an "unwritten market" has been made with the terrorists.
It all started with an interview broadcast last year on France 2 television channel in the documentary "Secret History of Anti-Terrorism". The former head of intelligence, 83-year-old Yves Bonnet, told the cameras that he sent men to negotiate with the terrorist group Abu Nidal, a dissident movement of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to which Attack is attributed.
Alerted by these revelations, the examining magistrate still in charge of the attack on the rue des Rosiers decided to summon Yves Bonnet last January. It is then that he explains the details of this secret agreement: to guarantee that France would be spared by new attacks, Yves Bonnet said he had proposed a non-aggression pact with the Palestinian terrorist group. In return, its members were allowed to return to French territory without being worried.
Heard last February, two former French intelligence agents have taken refuge behind the professional secrecy not to have to return to this secret pact.
But after the revelations of Yves Bonnet, the lawyer of the families of the victims asks for the lifting of the secret defense, evoking a matter of State. If this agreement is proven, he also wonders if it is possible that such pacts were made with other terrorist organizations.
On 9 August 1982, six people were killed and 22 wounded in the grenade and machine gun attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the historic Jewish quarter of Paris.