Hassan Diab, the only accused of the attack against the synagogue of the rue Copernic in Paris on October 3, 1980, was sentenced Friday to life imprisonment in his absence by the court. The prosecution had requested this maximum sentence, theOnly "conceivable" against the 69-year-old academic, considering that he was, "without any possible doubt", the author of this anti-Semitic attack, which killed four people nearly 43 years ago.
The defence had argued for acquittal.