The court of execution of sentences accepted, on Friday, November 15, the eleventh request for parole of the Lebanese pro-Palestinian activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned for 40 years for complicity in murder and free since 1999, he told Agence France-Presse (AFP) National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), which will appeal.
“By today’s decision, the sentence execution court admitted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah to the benefit of conditional release as of December 6, under the condition of leaving the national territory and not appearing there again.”the PNAT specified in a press release.
Georges Abdallah was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for complicity in the murder of two diplomats (he is imprisoned in Lannemezan, in the Hautes-Pyrénées).
Founder of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Fractions
It is, according to its defenders, “the oldest political prisoner in France and even in Europe”. His detractors, on the other hand, see him as a terrorist, proud of having killed American Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray on January 18, 1982, and Yacov Barsimentov, second secretary of the Israeli embassy and probably affiliated with the Mossad, on January 3 January 1982. It took place while fighting between Israel and the fedayeen of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), then based in Lebanon, provoked fury.
Freed for a quarter of a century, the founder of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Fractions (FARL), a small pro-Syrian and anti-Israel Marxist group that claimed five attacks, including four deaths, in 1981-1982 in France, has never been freed. released.
All of his requests for parole were rejected – considering that the interested party has never regretted his actions, that he refuses to compensate the families of the two victims and that his return to Lebanon would constitute a danger –, except for one in 2013. The latter was accepted on the condition that he was subject to an expulsion order which, however, had not been executed by the then Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls.
Friday’s court decision is not conditional on the government issuing such an order, Georges Abdallah Sr.’s attorney said.my Jean-Louis Chalanset, greetings “a legal victory and a political victory”.
