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Source: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-827521
Terrorist Sentenced to Life for Synagogue Bombing Now Teaches at Canadian University
(Jerusalem Post) Mathilda Heller - Dr. Hassan Diab, a Lebanese terrorist, was convicted by a French court over his involvement in a 1980 bombing that killed four Jews and injured 46 people outside the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris. Diab fled to Canada, was arrested in 2008, and was extradited to France in 2014. After two years in prison, a judge allowed him to be released to house arrest and he escaped to Canada on the same day. The French court unanimously ruled that Diab was guilty and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia. Despite on international arrest warrant against him, Diab is a professor of sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa and will be teaching a course this year on "social justice in action."