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French police and prosecutors today arrest the 61-year-old Palestinian with Norwegian citizenship, accused of terrorism in Paris.
Six people were killed and 22 injured when the Abu Nidal terrorist group attacked the Goldenberg restaurant in the Jewish quarter of Paris in 1982.
A grenade was thrown at the restaurant and more than 70 shots were fired.
The man was arrested earlier this year by the Police Security Service (PST). Last Friday, his last resort was rejected by the King in Council.
DENY DEBT: The Norwegian citizen accused of terrorism denies having been in Paris. Photography: Tomm W. Christiansen / Dagbladet
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Collected by France
Communication consultant Annett Aamodt at PST today declined to comment on the case.
But Dagbladet gets confirmation that French authorities today pick up the 61-year-old man and fly him to Paris.
For the past 20 years, the 61-year-old has lived in Skien. There is now a pending lawsuit in France. The man runs the risk of being imprisoned for the rest of his life.
The 61-year-old Norwegian defender, attorney Ole-Martin Meland, has previously refused to comment on the case to Dagbladet. Meland was not available for comment today.
Deny
It was not until 2015 that the Norwegian citizen was identified. Later, the Paris police asked the Norwegian authorities to extradite him. But only this year, after Norway ratified the Nordic-European arrest warrant, the Norwegian authorities were able to extradite the man to France.
Dagbladet has previously been in contact with the Norwegian. He did not want to comment on the terrorist charge or speak to Dagbladet.
He had previously told the French newspaper Paris Match that he had never been to Paris and had never been part of the Abu Nidal terrorist group.
A convicted person (56) living in Telemark is wanted for an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris
Abu Nidal
When he arrived in Norway in 1991, and later obtained Norwegian citizenship, the man claimed that he had only belonged to the PLO, the Palestinian liberation organization, and its largest member organization, Al-Fatah.
The Abu Nidal terrorist group was known by several different names. Among others: Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), Arab Revolutionary Council, Fatah Revolutionary Council, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Revolutionary Organization of Muslim Socialists and Black September.
The terrorist group was financed by the regimes of Syria, Libya and Iraq. The group is said to have carried out terrorist attacks in 20 countries. At least 300 people are said to have been killed by the terrorist group and several hundred were injured.
The most dangerous in the world
In the mid-1980s, the terrorist group was considered the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. When Abu Nidal was assassinated in Baghdad in August 2002, the terrorist organization disbanded.
The Palestinians claim that Abu Nidal was assassinated on the orders of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
However, the Iraqi authorities claimed that Abu Nidal, who for several years was considered the most dangerous terrorist in the world, took his own life.
