Paris (AFP)
The Crif claimed Monday a parliamentary commission of inquiry after statements by a former head of French intelligence that would have entered into a deal with the Palestinian group that perpetrated the attack on rue des Rosiers in 1982 in Paris.
Six people were killed and 22 wounded during the bombing of the capital's historic Jewish quarter on 9 August 1982.
Boss of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST) between November 1982 and 1985, Yves Bonnet had been questioned on January 30 by the investigating judge in charge of the investigation, had been learned Friday sources close to the case.
According to Le Parisien, he then reiterated that he had established an "unwritten market" with the Palestinian terrorist group Abu Nidal, guaranteeing them the absence of legal proceedings in France in exchange for their commitment not to commit any more attacks.
For Francis Kalifat, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), "if these facts are accurate, they would be extremely serious and constitute an unprecedented state scandal," according to a statement to the AFP.
Kalifat calls for "the establishment of a parliamentary inquiry commission and the lifting of the defense secret".
Yves Bonnet, 83, had already revealed in a documentary broadcast in November on France 2 to have sent his men to negotiate with emissaries of Abu Nidal, leader of the group Fatah-Revolutionary Council (Fatah-CR), a dissident faction of the PLO to which the attack was attributed.
In its statement, the Crif also asks the President of the Republic to "do everything in the diplomatic and judicial field" so that the terrorists "responsible for this massacre can be heard by the French judges in charge of the case".
French justice has issued international arrest warrants for four suspects, two of whom are refugees in Jordan, but have been unable to extradite them until then.
Victims of the victims intend to ask for the lifting of the defense secret, they said Friday during a commemoration organized for the second year in a row at the scene of the attack by the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AFVT).
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