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Canadian officials have wasted no time in putting 60-year-old academic Hassan Diab on a plane to France, where he faces an investigation into the fatal 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue.
The Citizen has learned that Diab was extradited just one day after the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday refused to hear an appeal of his extradition order. The government had 45 days to enact the deportation. The government has not officially confirmed the deportation. The move comes one day before the second birthday of Diab’s daughter.
Once in the French capital, Diab will appear before an investigating judge — the beginning of an investigation that his lawyers say could last two years.
Although he is yet to be charged with an offence, the lawyers fear he will be convicted with tainted evidence and spend the rest of his life in a French prison.
“It’s tragic,” said his lawyer, Donald Bayne, this week. “We now have the classic recipe for the wrongful conviction of a Canadian citizen.”
Diab was originally ordered deported based on analysis of five handwritten words, written in capital letters in a Paris hotel register.
French authorities say the person who wrote the fictitious Greek name in the register was the person who planted a bomb in a motorcycle saddle bag outside a synagogue in downtown Paris.
Four passersby were killed and about 40 were injured.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger ordered Diab’s extradition in 2011 after saying that he found the handwriting evidence “illogical, very problematic, convoluted, very confusing with conclusions that are suspect.”
If a fair trial was held, it would be unlikely Diab would be convicted, the extradition judge said, but added that the extradition law left him with no choice.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
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The Citizen has learned that Diab was extradited just one day after the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday refused to hear an appeal of his extradition order. The government had 45 days to enact the deportation. The government has not officially confirmed the deportation. The move comes one day before the second birthday of Diab’s daughter.
Once in the French capital, Diab will appear before an investigating judge — the beginning of an investigation that his lawyers say could last two years.
Although he is yet to be charged with an offence, the lawyers fear he will be convicted with tainted evidence and spend the rest of his life in a French prison.
“It’s tragic,” said his lawyer, Donald Bayne, this week. “We now have the classic recipe for the wrongful conviction of a Canadian citizen.”
Diab was originally ordered deported based on analysis of five handwritten words, written in capital letters in a Paris hotel register.
French authorities say the person who wrote the fictitious Greek name in the register was the person who planted a bomb in a motorcycle saddle bag outside a synagogue in downtown Paris.
Four passersby were killed and about 40 were injured.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger ordered Diab’s extradition in 2011 after saying that he found the handwriting evidence “illogical, very problematic, convoluted, very confusing with conclusions that are suspect.”
If a fair trial was held, it would be unlikely Diab would be convicted, the extradition judge said, but added that the extradition law left him with no choice.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
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