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The Norwegian police announced this Wednesday the arrest of a man suspected of being one of the perpetrators of the attack that took place on Rue Rouzier in a neighborhood where Jews live in Paris in 1982, which left six dead and 22 injured.
France had for years been demanding his extradition to Walid Abdel-Rahman Abu Zeid, who had lived in Norway since 1991, and had denied any involvement in the attack that was attributed to the Fatah-Revolutionary Council movement led by Abu Nidal.
Without revealing the identity of the suspect, the Norwegian counter-terrorism police announced that they had arrested a person on Wednesday in connection with this case.
“We can confirm that the Norwegian counter-terrorism police arrested a man in Skien (southern Norway) today … based on a European arrest warrant issued by the French authorities,” a police spokeswoman, Annette Amoudat, told AFP. .
He added: “The French authorities have issued an extradition request, which will be carefully studied to see if the conditions are met.”
The 60-year-old man, who now has Norwegian citizenship, denies his participation and claims that “there is a mistake in the person.”
In 2015, his wife told France Press, commenting on an international arrest warrant issued against him by France, which Norway did not follow at the time, “My husband has never killed anyone. He has never visited France.”
On August 9, 1982 at noon, a bomb was dropped in a popular restaurant on Rue Rosier, exploding among about fifty customers, then two of the murderers entered the restaurant while shooting.
Subsequently, the group of three to five armed men drove off into the street, discharging their machine-gun bullets at passersby.
The result of that attack, which lasted three minutes, was six dead and 22 wounded, and the operation was attributed to the Fatah Revolutionary Council led by Abu Nidal, the splinter group of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The testimonies of unknown persons, in particular, allowed the identification of the three suspects after a long work carried out by the French General Directorate of Internal Security.
Jordan had arrested one of the three suspects in 2015, Khaled Al-Abbasi, and then released him on bail, before a Jordanian court refused to hand him over to French authorities.
