Palestinian authorities have arrested a key suspect in an antisemitic attack on a Jewish restaurant in the heart of Paris, which left six people dead on August 9, 1982, French prosecutors said on Friday, September 19. Gunmen threw a grenade into the restaurant and shot at customers with sub-machine guns, killing six customers and injuring 22 others.
The office of the France anti-terror prosecutor said it was informed by Interpol of the arrest of Hicham Harb, welcoming "this major procedural breakthrough" and thanking the Palestinian authorities for their cooperation.
Harb, now 70, who is suspected of leading the attackers in the gun assault on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant, was arrested in the occupied West Bank, according to the Le Parisien daily, which first reported the arrest.
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