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Canadian academic convicted for deadly 1980 Paris synagogue attack

At the end of a protracted judicial process, a Paris court has convicted Lebanese-Canadian university professor Hassan Diab, 69, of planting a motorcycle bomb in the Rue Copernic in central Paris on October 3rd 1980, killing four people  and wounding 38 others. 

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More than 42 years after the deadly bombing of a Paris synagogue, a court in Paris has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian university professor of carrying out the attack, reports BBC News.

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