By John R. Kennedy in Ottawa, Canada, for DailyMail.com
Jewish interest groups are messy that the man who has been convicted of the fatal bomb attack from 1980 outside of a synagogue of Paris continues to lead a comfortable life in the national capital of Canada.
The Hassan Diab born in Beirut, 71, is seen and cycling in the suburbs of Ottawa in these exclusive photos of DailyMail.com.
“The fact that Hassan Diab stays free in Canada is unacceptable,” said Richard Marceau, Vice -President, External Affairs and General Counselor of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), in a statement to DailyMail.com Thursday.
The government of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to deliver Diab to France.
But Canadians will go to the polls later this spring and a change from government can cause Diab problems.
Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre posted on social media last November: “Why was he not extradited to France to face justice?”
And Diab is apparently aware that his destiny could change and a podcast in Canadaland tells: 'I just have to be careful. It is as if you live in constant fear.
“It's not easy, it's like waiting for a spirit to appear somewhere.”
The government of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to deliver the convicted person from 1980 from 1980 from 1980 Paris Synagogue Bomber Hassan Diab to France, which has led indignation among Jewish interest groups
Four people were killed on the evening of October 3, 1980, when an explosive device that was attached to a motorcycle that explodes outside the Copernic Synagogue of the Rue
The decision of the previous administration could be challenged because the conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre asked on social media last November why he had not been sent back to 'Face Justice'
Four people were killed on the evening of 3 October 1980, when an explosive device that was attached to a motorcycle that was exploded outside the Copernic Synagogue of the Rue.
Diab, who consistently claimed that he did university exams in Beirut at the time of the bombing, was arrested in Canada in 2008, but was released on bail.
In 2014 he was extradited to France, where he spent three years in pretial detention. Diab returned to Canada in 2018 when the charges against him were withdrawn.
The Paris Court of Appeal reversed the dismissal in January 2021 and ordered Diab to be tried.
Diab refused to return to France and on April 21, 2023 he was convicted of terrorist charges in absentia and convicted to life in prison.
An international arrest warrant has been issued.
“He received any protection under French and European law and was found guilty by an independent court,” said Marceau, in which the failure to bring Diab back to France described as “an abuse of trial.”
He added: 'Justice must be maintained. In a time of increasing anti -Semitism, it is possible that a convicted perpetrator of a deadly anti -Semitic attack will remain in Canada.
In 2014 he was extradited to France, where he spent three years in pretial detention. Diab returned to Canada in 2018 when the charges were withdrawn against him
Diab refused to return to France and on April 21, 2023 he was convicted of terrorist charges in the absence and convicted to life in prison
Diab's wife Rania Tfaily is assistant professor and associate chair in the Sociology and Anthropology department of Carleton University, where Diab was released after the indignation about him broke out using his Extraradition case as a learning tool
B'nai B'rith Canada, an international Jewish service organization, has destroyed Carleton University in a statement it shared on social media
“Diab must be held responsible and delivered to France to serve his life imprisonment.”
B'nai B'rith Canada, an international Jewish service organization, also greeted the decision to reverse the dismissal and said that the move represented a 'long -awaited step' for the victims.
“The delays in keeping those who are responsible for what is known as the darkest day before French Jews, because the Holocaust has worsened the wounds by the attack alone,” the organization told DailyMail.com.
'The passage of time should not allow the perpetrator of such a horrible anti -Semitic terror attack to escape from justice.
“If the French government is looking for extraction and his extradition is authorized by a justice in Canada, it is our expectation that Canada will honor his treaty with France and be Diab to France.”
Last year Diab gave a course entitled Social Justice in Action at the Carleton University of Ottawa, with the help of his extradition case in the classroom.
B'nai B'rith Canada was one of the many Jewish groups that destroyed Carleton University, in a statement on social media.
'We cannot stand, while a convicted terrorist, affiliated with a listed terrorist group, teaches about our campuses!
“Carleton's silence is deeply disturbing. The decision to continue to use Diab is not only a danger to the well -being of his students, but it is an insult to the memory of the innocent victims of his horrific crime and an insult to all Canadians who appreciate the law and order. '
Diab lives in a modest split level house in a quiet, tree-dotted street. He goes for runs and rides his bike nearby
On Thursday, Diab spent more than an hour in a second cup café near his house and worked on a laptop. He refused to talk to a reporter
The Hassan Diab Support Committee said in a statement in January that Diab is being taxed and scapegoat. It claims that the case of France against Diab was 'always extremely weak' and the conviction of 2023 came from a 'fake process'
In January the university said in a statement that Diab was no longer in Carleton's employment.
His wife, Rania Tfaily, is assistant professor and associated chairman in Carleton's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
The couple has a daughter Jena and son Jad Samen and Diab has two adult children, Maya and Jude, from an earlier relationship.
Diab lives in a modest split level house in a quiet, tree-dotted street. He goes for runs and rides his bike in the area.
On Thursday, Diab spent more than an hour in a second cup café near his house and worked on a laptop. He refused to talk to a reporter.
Diab's lawyer Donald Bayne, who did not respond to a request for comment, wrote in 2021 that Diab is rightly in France 'an unjust decision and a decision that has justified justice for more than a decades'.
And the convicted terrorist has defenders in his community.
The Hassan Diab Support Committee said in a statement in January that Diab is being taxed and scapegoat. It claims that the case of France against Diab was 'always extremely weak' and the conviction of 2023 came from a 'fake process'.
It added: “Canada should not be a party to this injustice and must urgently and unambiguously state that Hassan Diab will not be subject to a second extradition.”
