OTTAWA --
Supporters of Hassan Diab are urging the Trudeau authorities to rebuff any new extradition request from France now that there's a date for the Ottawa sociology professor's terrorism trial.
Diab is slated to face trial in France in April subsequent 12 months for a 1980 Paris bombing, despite the fact that he was free of French custody 4 years in the past.
The RCMP arrested Diab in November 2008 in response to a request by France.
French authorities suspect he was concerned within the assault on a Paris synagogue that killed 4 individuals and injured dozens of others, an accusation he has at all times denied.
Following prolonged proceedings that went all the best way to the Supreme Court docket of Canada, Diab was extradited to France the place he spent three years behind bars, together with time in solitary confinement.
In January 2018, French judges dismissed the allegations in opposition to him and ordered his speedy launch, permitting him to return to Ottawa the place he lives along with his spouse and youngsters.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 25, 2022.
FILE - Hassan Diab, an Ottawa professor who was extradited to France after allegations of involvement within the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue, responds to the discharge of an exterior overview on his extradition by the Justice Division throughout a press convention on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, July 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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