Attacks on rue des Rosiers: update on the investigation 40 years later

Will there be a trial for the attack on rue des Rosiers in Paris? This is what the victims gathered on Tuesday, August 9 afternoon at the scene of the tragedy hope. The daughter of an injured victim is waiting for him. It is 1:15 p.m. on August 9, 1982, in the old Jewish quarter of Paris. Open-faced terrorists throw grenades, then unleash machine gun bursts in the kosher restaurant Jo Goldenberg. The toll is heavy: six people died, and 22 were injured. Very quickly, the target and the weapons used direct the investigators towards the Palestinian terrorist group of Abou Nidal, which multiplies the anti-Semitic attacks in Europe.

But the investigation is bogged down. Impossible to go back to the assassins described by the witnesses. However, after decades, tongues finally loosen up. Former members of the organization confide anonymously to the French service. This allows the judge Trevidic to deliver arrest warrants against several suspects: two in Jordan, one in the West Bank, never extradited. In 2020, in Norway, an ex-Palestinian activist is sent back to France. He is the only one imprisoned in this case today. At 65, he claims his innocence. The only suspect to date could be tried in less than two years.