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Ottawa academic Hassan Diab is back home with his family and a free man for the first time in a decade.
The 64-year-old former University of Ottawa and Carleton University professor walked out of a Paris maximum security prison on Friday shortly after France dropped terrorism charges against him but his departure from France, coordinated with Global Affairs in Ottawa and Paris, was far more rapid than expected.
Diab, who is on a no-fly list, flew back home via Iceland on a temporary, one-journey passport accompanied by a Paris-based Canadian embassy official.
The academic had been indicted on murder, attempted murder and other charges related to an October 1980 bomb attack outside a Paris synagogue that killed four passersby and injured dozens more. The bomb was planted in the saddle bag of a motorcycle parked outside the synagogue.
He had been held in the maximum-security French prison on pre-trial detention for more than three years.
He arrived home in the early hours of Monday morning after the bureaucratic wheels were set in motion to bring him home to his wife and two small children.
French authorities apparently gave the green light to Canada before Diab’s transfer process from Paris began.
Diab, a Lebanon-born Canadian citizen who consistently denied involvement in the synagogue bombing, is scheduled to appear at a news conference on Wednesday at the office of Amnesty International in Ottawa.
French judicial investigators, who travelled to Beirut as part of their probe of Diab’s claims of innocence, said the academic’s claim that he was studying in Lebanon at the time of bombing appeared to be true.
With prosecutors and lawyers for the synagogue victims threatening appeals, the legal case theoretically remains open. It is unclear whether those appeals will proceed.
Diab fought a six-year legal battle against his extradition to France and his case brought an unprecedented spotlight on Canada’s extradition agreements with dozens of other countries.
Critics have described the law as a backwater in the Canadian justice system that enables Canada to send its citizen to requesting countries on the flimsiest of evidence.
Diab’s extradition judge, Robert Maranger, criticized the evidence presented by Canadian federal prosecutors acting for France but said the low threshold of extradition law gave him no choice but to recommend Diab’s extradition.
Maranger said it was unlikely that the French evidence would result in a conviction in a Canadian court.
Commenting on the case last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hinted that his government is open to reviewing Canada’s extradition law.
Many of the countries with which Canada has extradition agreements do not extradite their own citizens to any other foreign nation.
France is one of those countries.
More to come
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The 64-year-old former University of Ottawa and Carleton University professor walked out of a Paris maximum security prison on Friday shortly after France dropped terrorism charges against him but his departure from France, coordinated with Global Affairs in Ottawa and Paris, was far more rapid than expected.
Diab, who is on a no-fly list, flew back home via Iceland on a temporary, one-journey passport accompanied by a Paris-based Canadian embassy official.
The academic had been indicted on murder, attempted murder and other charges related to an October 1980 bomb attack outside a Paris synagogue that killed four passersby and injured dozens more. The bomb was planted in the saddle bag of a motorcycle parked outside the synagogue.
He had been held in the maximum-security French prison on pre-trial detention for more than three years.
He arrived home in the early hours of Monday morning after the bureaucratic wheels were set in motion to bring him home to his wife and two small children.
French authorities apparently gave the green light to Canada before Diab’s transfer process from Paris began.
Diab, a Lebanon-born Canadian citizen who consistently denied involvement in the synagogue bombing, is scheduled to appear at a news conference on Wednesday at the office of Amnesty International in Ottawa.
French judicial investigators, who travelled to Beirut as part of their probe of Diab’s claims of innocence, said the academic’s claim that he was studying in Lebanon at the time of bombing appeared to be true.
With prosecutors and lawyers for the synagogue victims threatening appeals, the legal case theoretically remains open. It is unclear whether those appeals will proceed.
Diab fought a six-year legal battle against his extradition to France and his case brought an unprecedented spotlight on Canada’s extradition agreements with dozens of other countries.
Critics have described the law as a backwater in the Canadian justice system that enables Canada to send its citizen to requesting countries on the flimsiest of evidence.
Diab’s extradition judge, Robert Maranger, criticized the evidence presented by Canadian federal prosecutors acting for France but said the low threshold of extradition law gave him no choice but to recommend Diab’s extradition.
Maranger said it was unlikely that the French evidence would result in a conviction in a Canadian court.
Commenting on the case last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hinted that his government is open to reviewing Canada’s extradition law.
Many of the countries with which Canada has extradition agreements do not extradite their own citizens to any other foreign nation.
France is one of those countries.
More to come
查看原文...
