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Georges Abdallah Freed From French Prison and Deported to Lebanon

His conditional release order required him to leave France under a non-suspensive cassation appeal.

Photo prise lors d'une visite de la députée La France Insoumise (LFI) Andrée Taurinya montrant le militant libanais pro-palestinien Georges Ibrahim Abdallah dans sa cellule de prison à Lannemezan, le 17 juillet 2025
Un convoi qui transporte le militant libanais Georges Abdallah quitte le centre pénitentiaire de Lannemezan dans les Hautes-Pyrénées, le 25 juillet 2025.
Les images du retour au Liban de Georges Abdallah après 40 ans de prison en France
Photo prise le 3 juillet 1986 au Tribunal de Lyon du Libanais Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, condamné à la prison à vie en 1987 pour complicité d'assassinat de diplomates américain et israélien en 1982, et complicité de tentative d'assassinat d'un troisième en 1984

Overview

  • Georges Abdallah was arrested in 1984 and convicted in 1987 for complicity in assassinations of U.S. and Israeli diplomats, serving over four decades at Lannemezan prison.
  • On July 17 the Paris Court of Appeal ordered his release effective July 25 on condition he quit French soil and never return, describing his detention as disproportionate.
  • A non-suspensive cassation appeal filed by the Paris prosecutor general on July 21 did not block his departure from France.
  • He left prison shortly before 3:40 a.m. on July 25 in a six-vehicle convoy, was transferred to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport and deported to Beirut on Air France flight 564.
  • Abdallah arrived in Beirut to chants of “Liberté!”, reaffirmed his call for Palestinian resistance and is set to receive a popular and official welcome in his home village of Kobayat.