where is 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 was 1:15 p.m. on August 9, 1982, in the old Jewish quarter of Paris, when terrorists in the open threw grenades, then unleashed bursts of machine gun fire into the Jo-Goldenberg kosher restaurant. 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. It is 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 Judge Trévidic 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.