Paris correspondent
AFP74 -year -old Lebanese teacher Georges Abdullah, who became a leftist symbol for Palestinian cause, is to be freed by France after 41 years of jail on Friday.
The “described as a man described by his lawyer who spent the longest time in jail for events associated with the Israeli-Pilstinian conflict,” Abdullah is expected to fly directly to Beirut.
In 1987, two diplomats were convicted of complexity in murders in France – an American, an Israeli – Abdullah is gradually forgotten by the broader public.
But his release remained one of the reasons for workers on Marxist-Leninists, with which he still recognizes.
His rigid looking bearded face continued to be colleague with banners in leftist performances; And once a year, the protesters gathered in Pirenies to demand their freedom outside their prison. The three leftist -led French municipalities declared him a “honorary citizen”.
Although the eligible for parole since 1999, he saw that a gradual request for Liberty was turned down. According to supporters, it was due to pressure on the French government from the US and Israel.
Recently in an interview in his cell in Lamzan Jail by French news agency AFP, he said that he had kept prudence on the Palestinian “struggle”.
“If I didn’t have it … Okay, 40 years – it can mash your brain,” he said.
On the walls of his cell, Abdullah placed a picture of the postcard from the 1960s revolutionary Che Guevara and supporters from all over the world. A desk was covered with a pile of newspapers.
AFPBorn in the North Lebanon in 1951, in a Christian family, Abdullah helped to establish Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Guts (LARF) in the 1970s – a small Marxist group that is dedicated to fighting the United States and its closest ally, United States.
At that time Lebanon was entangled in a civil war. In 1978 and then in 1982, Israel attacked South Lebanon to counter Palestinian fighters.
Abdullah’s group decided to hit Israel and American goals in Europe, and made five attacks in France. In 1982, its members shot and killed the US diplomat Charles Ray in Strasbourg, and Israel’s diplomat Yakov Barsimantov in Paris. In addition, a car bomb was convicted on Larf, killing two French bomb-disorders.
Abdullah was arrested in 1984 in Leon. Taunted by French intelligence officials, he thought he was being followed by Israeli killers and gave himself to a police station. Initially, he was accused of being only false passports and criminal unions.
Some time later a French citizen was abducted in North Lebanon, and the French Secret Service entered an interaction to do an exchange through Algeria.
The French citizen was freed, but Abdullah found a cash of weapons in his flat just before the police released the police in Paris, in which the gun was used to kill diplomats. This made their liberation impossible.
Two years later, for his test, Paris was hit by a group of terrorist attacks, killing 13 people. They were convicted by the media on politicians and Abdullah’s colleagues, trying to pressurize France to free. It was later established that he was actually the work of Lebanese Shia Group Hizbullah under Iran’s instructions.
In the test, Abdullah denied participation in the murders but defended his validity. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Getty imagesOut of more than 10 requests for release since 1999, only one came close to success. But in 2013, the then-American Secretary Hillary Clinton, while hoping to the French government, wrote that it could find “way to combat legitimacy” to free Abdullah.
His message was later made public by WikiLeaks.
The internal minister manual walls then refused to sign the removal order, on which Abdullah’s liberation was accidental.
This year the appeal court decided that the length of Abdullah’s custody was “inconsistent”, and it was no longer a threat. It again said that his release should be immediately after the expulsion from France.
“This is a win for justice, but it is also a political scam that it was not released earlier, thanks to the behavior of the United States and the behavior of the gradual French presidents,” said his lawyer Jean-Louis Chalan.
The 2022 Nobel Literature Award winner Annie Ernex, who stated that he was “a victim of state justice in which France should be embarrassed”.
Yaves Bonton, the head of intelligence, who tried to negotiate on Abdullah’s exchange in 1985 and is now a member of a distant national rally, said he was “treated worse than a serial killer” and “The United States was obsessed to keep him in jail”.
According to a report by Le Monde newspaper, a Palestinian prisoner – even those who condemned life imprisonment in Israel have also worked in more than 40 years of jail. Abdullah served 41.
