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It is the afternoon of August 9, 1982. 55 people are seated around the tables of the Chez Joe Goldberg restaurant on Rue des Rosiers, the old Jewish quarter of Paris.
A grenade is thrown at the restaurant. Two men burst into the room, each pulling out a submachine gun and firing wildly around him at the packed restaurant. They run away again, throwing a new grenade to cover the retreat.
At the exit, they empty the magazines of the Polish-made submachine guns to the people on the sidewalk, before disappearing into the chaos. According to the French arrest warrant, the Norwegian Palestinian has been identified in a photograph as one of the shooting men.
French police believe that the investigation has revealed that Skien’s man was part of the terrorist group for several years.
The terrorists who attacked the restaurant disappeared in chaos after the shooting
Photo: JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP
Former members testified
– He does not recognize any of this, says one of the Norwegian’s defenders, lawyer Ole-Martin Meland, to NRK.
At the Oslo District Court, where the ban on the proceedings was removed, it was learned that the French police were basing the case against the Norwegian on the explanations of two former members of Abu Nidal’s group.
The two witnesses have pointed to the Norwegian Palestinian and two other men who are still alive, one in Jordan and the other in Palestine.
The two former members, among other things, were promised an amnesty and a UK residence permit in exchange for the revelations, according to the French weekly Paris Match. The defendants believe it is problematic that the evidence is based on such agreements.
– In Norwegian criminal law, we do not operate with amnesties as we do in France. For us, its advocates, this is problematic, Meland says.
Paris Match has also written that the Norwegian denies any relationship with Abu Nidal.
The reason the PST went to arrest the Norwegian now is because a new arrest warrant agreement between Norway and Europe came into effect last year. Facilitate and expedite the extradition of Norwegian citizens who have broken the law in other EU countries.
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The terrorist attack in Paris was completed in less than a minute, but the investigation has taken almost 40 years.
Six people died and 22 were injured. Abu Nidal’s organization was behind the attack, according to French police.
Abu Nidal once belonged to the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). When the PLO in 1974 gave up the use of terrorism, Nidal broke out and formed the revolutionary council of the extremist group Fatah, better known as the Abu Nidal organization.
The man accused of terrorism, who is now detained for four weeks, is linked to the organization and to the attack on a restaurant in Paris in 1982. French police have tried to extradite the man for five years.
Kidnapping
On the night of November 23, 1985, an Egypt Air plane takes off from the Athens airport. There are 96 people on board. The plane is heading to Cairo. Immediately after the plane takes off, he is hijacked by three men. He is forced to land in Malta, and the hijackers begin to kill passengers and throw one by one out of the plane. After 24 hours, the plane is attacked by Egyptian soldiers.
A total of 59 people died and 27 were injured. Abu Nidal’s organization was behind the operation.
An Egypt Air plane was hijacked by hijackers from the Abu Nidal terrorist organization in 1985. A total of 59 people were killed in the operation.
Photo: PARDI / Ap
On September 5, 1986, the organization hijacked a Pan Am plane at the Karachi airport in Pakistan. The plane is heading to New York. The pilots escape and the plane stays at the airport. The hijackers will fly to Cyprus. After four hours, they start looking for Americans on board. the plane is attacked by the security forces. 22 people die in the operation.
Terrorist attacks in 20 countries
On September 6, 1986, two men from Abu Nidal’s organization stormed a synagogue in Istanbul. They close the doors with iron bars, throw grenades and shoot and kill 22 people.
On December 27, 1985, the people of Abu Nidal attack the airports of Rome and Vienna at the same time. Terrorists fire at Israeli airline El Al ticket sales at airports, killing 20 people.
Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome after the terrorist attack in 1985. At the same time, there was an attack at the Vienna airport.
Photo: AP
Abu Nidal’s organization is said to have been behind more than 90 terrorist attacks in 20 countries between 1974 and 1992. Around 900 were killed in the attacks. Nidal committed suicide in Baghdad in 2002 and the organization disbanded.
