Overview
- The PNAT has formally requested a special assizes trial for six men, charging them with murder and complicity in the 1982 Rue des Rosiers attack.
- Abou Zayed, aged 66 and extradited from Norway in 2020, is identified as a principal suspect alongside alleged shooters Hicham Harb and Nizar Tawfiq Hamada.
- Three men have been charged with complicity, while four key suspects remain at large under arrest warrants in the West Bank, Jordan and Kuwait.
- Forensic experts have linked weapons and ammunition from the Paris attack to other Fatah-CR operations in London, Rome, Athens and Brussels.
- The case now hinges on an anti-terror investigating magistrate’s ruling, due by early August, as defense lawyers dispute the reliability of decades-old sketches and intelligence.