![A demonstrator holds up a flare near a banner reading "Freedom for Georges Abdalah" as he takes part in a demonstration outside the Lannemezan prison to call for the release of Lebanese national Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, founder of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF) and former PFLP member jailed for life in 1987 for complicity in the killing of two US and Israeli diplomats in 1982, in Lannemezan, south-western France, on October 26, 2024. [VALENTINE CHAPUIS/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2180395885.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
The office of France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor said today that it would appeal against a French court’s decision to grant the release of a Lebanese man jailed for attacks on US and Israeli diplomats in France in the early 1980s, Reuters reports.
PNAT said Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Brigade, would be released on 6 December under the court’s decision on condition that he leave France and not return.
Abdallah was given a life sentence in 1987 for his role in the murders of US diplomat Charles Ray in Paris and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in 1982, and in the attempted murder of US Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg in 1984.
Representatives for the embassies of the United States and Israel, as well as the Ministry of Justice, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Requests for Abdallah’s release have been rejected and annulled multiple times, including in 2003, 2012 and 2014.