Ottawa professor Hassan Diab facing extradition over anti-Semitic bombing in Paris asks top court to hear his appeal

(National Post) An Ottawa man facing extradition to France in a terrorism case says the Supreme Court of Canada should hear his appeal due to crucial questions about the use of untested intelligence in a criminal prosecution.

In arguments filed with the Supreme Court, lawyers for sociology professor Hassan Diab say France’s reliance on secret information raises fundamental issues of constitutionality and procedural fairness.

The Canadian government says Diab’s request for a high-court hearing “raises no issue of public importance” and should be dismissed.

French authorities suspect Diab, 60, was involved in the anti-Semitic bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four people and injured dozens of others — an allegation Diab denies.

The RCMP arrested Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese descent, in November 2008 in response to a request by France. He had worked as a contract instructor at two Ottawa universities before his world was turned upside-down.

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