Hassan Diab, the only defendant in the attack on the synagogue on rue Copernic in Paris on October 3, 1980, was sentenced Friday to life imprisonment by the special assize court. The prosecution had requested this maximum sentence, considering that he was, without any doubt, the perpetrator of this anti-Semitic attack.
The Lebanese-Canadian academic, 69, was tried by the court which tried him in his absence. The defence had argued for acquittal of the only accused in the case.