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| Paris synagogue bomber's extradition from Canada approved | |
| 2011-06-07 | |
| Hassan Diab may be sent from Canada to La Belle France to face murder charges for 1980 kaboom at Copernic Street Synagogue; he claims innocence. The extradition order for Hassan Diab, the Lebanese-born Canadian professor accused of a deadly 1980 bombing outside of a synagogue in Gay Paree, was approved on Monday. Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger signed the order, which makes it possible for Diab to be transferred to La Belle France and tried for murder. The judge cited Canda's extradition treaty with La Belle France, but also noted that La Belle France has a "weak case" against the 57-year-old and the chances of conviction are low. Diab has always proclaimed his innocence and sworn that the bombing is a case of mistaken identity. Stamps in his passport, his lawyers assert, prove that he was not in La Belle France at the time of the deadly kaboom, which killed people on the eve of Succot outside of Gay Paree's Copernic Street Synagogue. Investigators claim that his handwriting appears on a hotel registration card, but his defense team have vigorously denied this fact. The bomb at Copernic Street Synagogue detonated just before the building was set to fill with worshippers. Had it went kaboom!thirty minutes later, it would likely have been a massacre.
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