Norway on Thursday detained a suspect linked to a 1982 attack in a Jewish neighborhood in Paris that left six people dead and 22 injured, pending a decision on his extradition to France, a court says.
Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, who has been living in Norway since 1991 and became a citizen in 1997, is being remanded in custody by an Oslo court after he was arrested on Wednesday following a French extradition request.
File photo of Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, alias ‘Souhail Othman’ as he gestures outside his home in the Norwegian town of Skien some 130 km south of Oslo, March 4, 2015. (Tomm W. CHRISTIANSEN/AFP)
On August 9, 1982, a group — three men according to the European arrest warrant issued by France — threw a grenade into the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in a historically Jewish quarter of Paris, then opened fire inside the establishment and on passers-by.
The attack has been attributed to the Abu Nidal Organization, which splintered from the militant Palestinian Fatah group.
— AFP
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