7/25/2025–|Last update: 11:26 (Mecca time)
The former member of the revolutionary armed factions in Lebanon, George Abdullah, left today, Friday, a prison in France, where he was about 41 years old, heading to Beirut after the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal last week to release him.
Abdullah was transferred in a procession of 6 vehicles, including two small buses from the Lanzan prison in Out-Birina Province in southwestern France, to Tarib Airport, where he will take a plane to Rawasi Airport in Paris to climb to a flight heading to Beirut in the morning.
“This is a source of joy, emotional shock, and political victory at the same time after all this period,” he said, stressing, “Stressing,” He should have come out very long ago. “
And the Court of Appeal in Paris last week issued its decision to release the Lebanese activist supporting the Palestinians on July 25, provided that France leaves and does not return to it.
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.
The judges of the Court of Appeal considered 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 to the Palestinian struggle,” noting that the group he was leading, which is a Marxist organization against imperialism, has become dissolved “and has not committed any violence since 1984.”
Towards his hometown
The Abdullah family hopes to be received in the honor salon at Beirut International Airport. I have asked permission from the authorities that have been calling France for years to release him.
Abdullah is scheduled to go “to his hometown in Al -Qubayat in northern Lebanon, where he will organize a popular and official reception that includes a word to him or a member of his family,” according to the family.
On the day of his release on the 17th of this month, the French Press Agency met Abdullah in his cell, accompanied by the radical left, André Turinia.
During the meeting, Abdullah said, “4 decades are a long period, but do not feel it when there is a dynamic of the struggle.”
It is noteworthy that Abdullah, who is currently 74, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of involvement in the assassination of an American diplomat and another Israeli in 1982.
Abdullah did not acknowledge his involvement in the two assassinations that he ranked in the field of “resistance against Israeli and American repression” in the context of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 1978.
George Abdullah has become eligible for the conditional release for 25 years, but 12 requests for his release were all rejected.
