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French court frees man convicted in 1980s slayings of Israeli, US diplomats
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA French court has ordered the release of Lebanese terror convict Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, after he served almost 40 years in prison for attacks on American and Israeli diplomats in France, BFM TV reports.
The former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Brigade was sentenced to life in 1987 for his role in the 1982 murders in Paris of US military attache Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov, and the attempted murder of US consul general Robert Homme in Strasbourg in 1984.
Officials at the French appeals court do not immediately reply for a comment on the situation.
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