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Published on 27 August 2015

France issues warrant for 1982 Jewish restaurant terror attack suspect

Six people were killed and 22 injured.

Published on RFI August 26, 2015
French investigators have issued an international arrest warrant for a Palestinian accused of taking part in a 1982 attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris that killed six people, sources said Wednesday. It is the fourth such warrant isued this year.
The warrant was for Nizar Tawfiq Mussa Hamada, 54, a man of Palestinian origin believed to be living in Jordan, sources told the AFP news agency.
He is accused of being part of the commando that threw a grenade into the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the rue des Rosiers, a Jewish area in central Paris, two of them then entering it and opening fire before all the attackers shot at passers-by in the street... Read more.