French Court Backs Release of Pro-Palestinian Lebanese Terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

(Paris) A French court on Thursday ruled that imprisoned pro-Palestinian militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah can be released on condition he is expelled from French territory.

The 61-year-old Lebanese national who has spent 28 years in jail and is a former guerrilla in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was granted parole in November on condition of his expulsion but was not released pending a decision on an appeal by prosecutors.

The court in Paris confirmed the parole decision and the interior ministry has until January 14 to issue an expulsion order.

Abdallah was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison three years later for his involvement in the 1982 murders of U.S. military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.

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