Sada News – The pro -Palestinian Lebanese activist, George Ibrahim Abdullah Al -Madan, went out of collusion in the assassination of American and Israeli diplomats in the eighties of the last century, on Friday, from a prison in France, where he was about 41 years old, to return to his country.
A procession of six mechanisms, including two small buses from the Lanzanan prison in the Out -Perrin Province in southwest of France, stated that the “France Press Agency” team reported without being able to see the bearded activist.
After leaving the prison, George Ibrahim Abdullah, 74, who is one of the oldest prisoners in France, will transfer directly to the Tarib Airport, according to a source in the security forces from where he will be transported by plane to Rawasi Airport in Paris to go up to a flight to Beirut.
“This is a source of joy, emotional shock and political victory at the same time after all this period” without confirming that his client was in the procession. He stressed: “He should have come out a very long time.”
And the Court of Appeal in Paris last week issued its decision to release the Lebanese activist on July 25, provided that he leaves France and does not return to it.
Abdullah, 74, in 1987, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of involvement in the assassination of an American diplomat and another Israeli in 1982. He became eligible for the conditional release for 25 years, but 12 requests for his release were all rejected.
On Monday, the Public Prosecution in Paris announced the submission to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal before the Court of Cassation, but this appeal, which takes several weeks, will not suspend the implementation of the ruling and will thus prevent Abdullah from returning to Lebanon.
“He seemed very happy to have the imminent release, even though he realizes that he returns to the very difficult Middle East region for Lebanese and Palestinians,” said Shalnes, who met him last in prison, Thursday.
In recent days, Abdullah has emptied his cell decorated with a red flag with the image of Che Guevara, in which many newspapers and books, which he handed over to his support committee, which demonstrated about 200 of its members on Thursday afternoon in front of the prison.
He gave the majority of his clothes to prisoners with him carrying a “small bag”, according to his lawyer.
His family hopes that he will be received at the Honor Salon at Beirut International Airport. I have asked permission from the authorities that have been calling France for years to release him.
It is decided that the activist will later direct “to his hometown in Al -Qubayat in northern Lebanon, where he will be organized by a popular and official reception that is permeated by a word to him or a member of his family,” according to his brother.
On the day of his decision to release him in his cell, he was met by the deputy from the radical left André Torina.
During the meeting, Abdullah said that the gray hair has conquered his beard that “four decades are a long period, but do not feel it whenever there is a dynamic of the struggle.”
The judges of the Court of Appeal promised that his detention period was “incompatible” with the crimes committed and with the age of the former commander of the “Lebanese Revolutionary Armed factions”.
The ruling stated that Abdullah has become a “symbol of the past of the Palestinian struggle,” noting that the small group that Abdullah was led and included Lebanese, secular, Marxist, and supportive activists of the Palestinians, has become “and has not committed any violence since 1984”.
Judges regretted that Abdullah did not express any “remorse or sympathy with the two victims that are considered enemies”, but they considered that the activist who wanted to spend his “last days” in his village in northern Lebanon, where he may engage in local policy, no longer pose any danger to public order.
Abdullah was injured during the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 1978, and joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the leftist movement led by George Habash.
After that, he founded with members of his family the Lebanese revolutionary armed factions, which are an anti -imperialist organization that adopted 5 attacks in Europe between 1981 and 1982 as part of his pro -Palestinian issue. And 4 of these attacks were killed in France.
Abdullah has long been responsible for a wave of attacks in Paris between 1985 and 1986 and killed 13 people who were afraid of fear in the French capital.
In 1986, he was sentenced to four years in prison for criminal conspiracy and possession of weapons and explosives. The following year was sentenced to the Paris Special Criminal Court on charges of collusion in the assassination of American diplomats Charles Ray and Israeli Yakov Parzimontov in 1982, and an attempt to assassinate a third in 1984.
Two months after Abdullah was sentenced to life imprisonment, real officials were identified for these attacks while they were linked to Iran.
Abdullah did not acknowledge his involvement in the two assassinations that he ranked in the field of “resistance” acts against “Israeli and American repression” in the context of the Lebanese civil war (1975 – 1990) and the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 1978.
With the exception of a small number of supporters who continued to demonstrate each year in front of Abdullah Prison and a few left -wing parliamentarians, the detainee has become forgotten over the years after he was in the eighties the first enemy of France and one of its most famous prisoners.
