Order to Stand Trial in Paris Bombing Flies in Face of Evidence, Diab’s Lawyer Says
Hassan Diab holds a news conference on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on February 7, 2020. A lawyer for Diab says a French appeal court's order that the Ottawa sociology professor stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of injustice. Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press
OTTAWA—A lawyer for Hassan Diab says a French appeal court’s order that the Ottawa sociology professor stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of injustice.
Donald Bayne told a news conference Wednesday the decision delivered in Paris “flies in the face of the existing evidence,” and he suggested French authorities are making Diab a scapegoat.
