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Hassan Diab’s six-year legal battle against extradition ended in defeat Thursday.
The academic will now be flown to Canada shortly to face possible terrorism charges in France.
The Supreme Court of Canada, Diab’s last hope, announced Thursday that it would not hear his final appeal on the constitutionality of his case.
The former Carleton University and University of Ottawa sociology professor has been in custody since Wednesday afternoon awaiting the top court’s ruling.
French authorities claim that Diab is a suspect in the 1980 bombing of a downtown Paris synagogue.
The Paris attack, the first against French Jews since the Second World War, came at the height of terrorist activity by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – an organization the Lebanon-born Diab denies ever belonging to.
He has also denied being in France the day the synagogue was bombed and there is no passport evidence to suggest that he was.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger ordered Diab extradited in June 2011 – a decision subsequently confirmed by then Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and upheld unanimously by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
The evidence French used to extradite Diab is sparse – essentially five words written in a hotel register buy the person said to be the bomber, or one of the gang.
In his decision, Maranger said the evidence would not likely result in a conviction in a Canadian criminal court trial but given the lower threshold of the extradition law, he had no choice but to agree to the French request.
Diab has two grown children and a daughter who is two-years-old on Saturday. His wife, Carleton University professor Raina Tfaily, is pregnant with their second child, due in January.
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The academic will now be flown to Canada shortly to face possible terrorism charges in France.
The Supreme Court of Canada, Diab’s last hope, announced Thursday that it would not hear his final appeal on the constitutionality of his case.
The former Carleton University and University of Ottawa sociology professor has been in custody since Wednesday afternoon awaiting the top court’s ruling.
French authorities claim that Diab is a suspect in the 1980 bombing of a downtown Paris synagogue.
The Paris attack, the first against French Jews since the Second World War, came at the height of terrorist activity by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – an organization the Lebanon-born Diab denies ever belonging to.
He has also denied being in France the day the synagogue was bombed and there is no passport evidence to suggest that he was.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger ordered Diab extradited in June 2011 – a decision subsequently confirmed by then Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and upheld unanimously by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
The evidence French used to extradite Diab is sparse – essentially five words written in a hotel register buy the person said to be the bomber, or one of the gang.
In his decision, Maranger said the evidence would not likely result in a conviction in a Canadian criminal court trial but given the lower threshold of the extradition law, he had no choice but to agree to the French request.
Diab has two grown children and a daughter who is two-years-old on Saturday. His wife, Carleton University professor Raina Tfaily, is pregnant with their second child, due in January.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
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