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French justice orders the release of Georges Abdallah, the oldest political prisoner in Europe

  • On 24 October last, Lebanese Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has been in pre-trial detention in the French State for 40 years. Militant for the freedom of Palestine, he was the creator of the Revolutionary Armed Fraction of Lebanon, and he is accused of killing an Israeli diplomat and an American. He will be released on 6 December.
Axier Lopez
15 November 2024 - 14:52
Abdallah bere ziegan.

The political prisoner who has been in prison for years in Europe will be released on 6 December, as long as he leaves the French State. However, the French anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office, in a statement, has announced that it will file an appeal against the release order, as reported by the French newspaper RFI, among others medios.Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 73, has never taken over the attacks they

are accused of, but has never neglected his anti-imperialist political ideas. Although he could be on probation since 1999, this possibility has been systematically rejected. Having examined the request for the eleventh time, they have announced that they will be released on 15 November.

Prisoner since 1984

Abdallah was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for participating in the killings of US military attaché Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yakov Barsimentov in Paris in 1982, as well as for attempting to assassinate the Consul of EE.Las Lebanese Armed Factions claimed the authorship of the two killings on the grounds that in

1975 the Lebanese southern part of the Israeli civil war.

A month ago, ARGIA published a comprehensive report on Georges Abdallah and an interview with his lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, with Jenofa Berhokoirigoin. It explains Abdallah's trajectory. It is a political position and 40 years of judicial process until it becomes the political prisoner who has been imprisoned for the longest time in Europe.

 

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