Paris is marking the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attack in which six people lost their lives, the only suspect accused of the murders still maintains that he is not guilty. French judges suspect him of being one of the gunmen who carried out the attack on August 9, 1982 in a Jewish restaurant
40 years after the attack in the Jewish quarter in Paris, the only suspect held by the French justice system still claims his innocence. Walid Abdul Rahman Abu Zaid’s lawyers condemned the police investigation into the attack, saying the police were looking for “a guilty party at any cost.”
The suspect was extradited from Norway in December 2020, today he is 63 years old, a Norwegian Palestinian who has since been indicted for murder and attempted murder and imprisoned in France. French judges suspect him of being one of the gunmen who carried out the attack on the Jewish restaurant on August 9, 1982, when six people were killed and 22 injured following a grenade explosion in the Goldenberg restaurant.
Abu Zeid was born in 1958, near Jenin, to farmer parents, he worked in construction and joined the Fatah terrorist organization in 1981 and left for a training camp in Syria. From 1982 to 1983, he claims to have lived in Lebanon. Regarding Petah, he insists that he has nothing to do with the organization.
In 1985 he got married, had two children and in 1991 immigrated with false documents to Norway, which he never left. Now he is on trial in France, and this against the background of marking the 40th anniversary of the attack. The judges believe they have identified three more suspects, two are in Jordan – including the commander of the attack squad, and a third is in the territories, but Jordan has repeatedly refused to hand them over.