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The arrest took place in Skien on Wednesday morning, the Police Security Service (PST) confirms to Dagbladet.
– Today we arrested a Norwegian citizen in Skien. The arrest is based on the European arrest warrant at the request of France, senior adviser Annette Aamodt at PST tells Dagbladet.
The man in his 60s will be presented for custody on Thursday. Dagbladet has been in contact with the man’s former attorney, but neither he nor his law firm want to comment on the case. Dagbladet is unaware of how the man reacts to the accusation, but the man has not previously understood the incident.
Restaurant attack
The background to the accusation is an attack in Paris in 1982:
On August 9, 1982, four uniformed perpetrators appeared in the Jewish quarter in Paris. They took aim at the Goldenberg restaurant, threw a grenade, and then fired more than 70 shots at customers and employees. Six people died and 22 were injured.
They shot up and escaped. The investigation has lasted to date.
The attack is related to the now-discontinued ANO terrorist organization of which French police believe Norwegians have been a part.
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Second time
This is the second time that the French authorities have requested the Norwegian’s extradition. She has lived in Skien for over 20 years. The French judiciary wants to question him and bring him to justice for the attack. He is said to have been identified by multiple witnesses in 2015.
The new charge will be identical to the previous one, but this time the French authorities hope that he can be extradited, because Norway recently ratified the Nordic-European arrest warrant. The 2015 order states:
“NN, a Skien resident, has been identified as a member of Abu Nidal’s Fatah-CR (or ANO) group and charged with the murder of six people and the attempted murder of another 22.”
It came into force on November 1 last year and allows Norwegian citizens to be extradited to EU states, with a short deadline for decision and implementation.
Dagbladet has previously been in contact with the Norwegian. He did not want to comment on the new situation to Dagbladet.
He had previously told Paris Match and VG that it is not him, that he has never been to Paris and has never been to ANO. When he arrived in Norway in 1991, he declared that he had only belonged to Arafat’s Fatah movement.
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ANO was a secular international terrorist group that has been sponsored by Syria, Libya, and Iraq. It is named after its leader Sabri al-Banna or Abu Nidal, a veteran Palestinian terrorist. The group has attacked various Western, Israeli and Arab targets. Over the years, ANO carried out terrorist attacks in 20 countries, killing at least 300 people and wounding hundreds more. In the mid-1980s, the group was considered the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world.
The group ended at the same time as the mysterious death of Abu Nidal in August 2002.
Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), also known as the Arab Revolutionary Council, Fatah Revolutionary Council, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Revolutionary Organization of Muslim Socialists and Black September
