43 years later, Palestinian Authority arrests suspect over antisemitic Paris attack

By AFP 19 September 2025, 1:17 pm

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Firemen and rescuers in Paris's Rue des Rosiers after the French-Jewish delicatessen restaurant Jo Goldenberg was attacked on August 9, 1982, by terrorists who threw a grenade into the restaurant and shot at customers with sub-machine guns, killing six customers and injuring 22 others. (Jacques DEMARTHON / AFP)

Palestinian authorities have arrested a key suspect in a 1982 antisemitic attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris that left six people dead, French prosecutors say.

The office of the French anti-terror prosecutor says it has been informed by Interpol of the arrest of Hicham Harb, welcoming “this major procedural breakthrough” and thanking the Palestinian authorities for their cooperation.

Harb, now 70, who is suspected of leading the attackers in the gun assault on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the heart of Paris, has been arrested in the Palestinian Authority-run part of the West Bank, according to the Le Parisien daily, which first reported the arrest.