On August 9, 1982, during the attack on rue des Rosiers in Paris -

AFP

The judge in charge of the investigation into the rue des Rosiers attack in 1982 appealed to the Paris Court of Appeal of a possible irregularity in the procedure which followed the extradition on December 4 of one of the suspects , we learned Sunday from corroborating sources.

The anti-terrorist judge noted that the signature of the interpreter in Arabic was missing on the suspect's "document of notification of rights" during his placement in judicial detention upon his arrival at Charles-de-Gaulle airport from from Norway, said a judicial source, confirming information from the

Parisian

.

The magistrate therefore decided to "seize ex officio the investigative chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, for the purposes of assessing the regularity of the procedure", according to his letter quoted by

Le Parisien

.

The extradition of Walid Abdulrahman Abou Zayed from Norway, where he had lived since 1991, gave the victims hope of seeing a trial for this attack, attributed to the Palestinian group Abou Nidal.

"A material error"

"The procedural risk", which could go as far as invalidating the indictment and the pre-trial detention of the suspect, "however seems limited", estimates the judicial source.

"Other documents show that the interpreter was present, so it looks more like a material error."

If ever the Court of Appeal judged this irregular detention, "the jurisprudence however goes rather in the direction that such nullity does not affect the validity of the following judicial acts".

"In any case, he was validly extradited", relativizes a source close to the file: "Even if this act is annulled, he is on French territory and can be notified of the arrest warrant", thus allowing to regularize his indictment and his imprisonment.

"We are very disturbed by this incident, but very confident in the sagacity of the judges" to resolve this difficulty, responded Me David Pere, lawyer for the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AFVT).

On August 9, 1982, a commando group of three to five men threw a grenade into the Jo Goldenberg restaurant, then strafed the interior of the establishment as well as passers-by in the historic Jewish quarter of the Marais in Paris, killing six and twenty -two injured.

Extradited on December 4, Abou Zayed, a 62-year-old Norwegian naturalized Palestinian, was indicted the next day for “assassinations” and “attempted assassinations” and then imprisoned.

He denies having been part of the commando.

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