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6 Palestinians to be tried for 1982 Paris attack on Jewish restaurant
The infamous attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in August 1982 killed six and wounded 22
A French court has reportedly ordered that six Palestinians be tried for an infamous 1982 terror attack on a Jewish restaurant and deli in Paris which killed six and injured 22.
Lawyer David Père, who represents victims of the attack, said that a terrorism court in Paris had ordered the trial for six Palestinians, alleged to have then been part of the Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist group. According to reports from international media, the court does not make its orders public and rarely responds to journalist inquiry.
Four of the six named are believed to now be living either in Jordan or the Palestinian territories, and would therefore be tried in absentia. The fifth was extradited from Norway to France in 2020, and the sixth is believed to have recently been detained in Paris.
The 9 August 1982 attack on the Jewish restaurant and deli, located in the Marais quarter of Paris, saw terrorists fire machine guns and throw grenades as they stormed the location, in what became the deadliest attack on French Jews since the Second World War. During its years of operation, the Abu Nidal organisation would carry out terrorist attacks in 20 different countries, against Jewish, Israeli and more general targets, killing at least 275 people and injuring approximately 1,350.
Père told The Associated Press that the trial was “historic” for those he represents, which includes one direct survivor of the attack as well as many relatives of the victims. “For them, this is not about the past but the present. It’s a trial they intend to follow day by day,” he said.
Goldenberg himself, who managed to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris as well as the Palestinian terror attack on his business, died in 2014 at the age of 91.
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