France Adds Charge Against Lebanese
The Justice Ministry announced Friday it has added a 1984 assassination attempt on a U.S. official to a jailed Lebanese militant’s February trial in the murders of a U.S. military attache and an Israeli diplomat.
The accused, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, is already serving a four-year prison term for possessing arms and using false passports. His release was demanded by the terrorists who detonated five bombs in Paris that killed eight people and wounded more than 160 in September.
The Justice Ministry earlier announced that Abdallah would be tried in February for his alleged involvement in the 1982 Paris assassinations of U.S. military attache Col. Charles R. Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimentov.
The Justice Ministry said Friday he also will be judged at the same time on charges in the March 26, 1984, attempted killing in Strasbourg of U.S. Consul General Robert O. Homme, who was wounded by an unidentified gunman outside his home.
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