Order to Stand Trial in Paris Bombing Flies in Face of Evidence, Diab’s Lawyer Says

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
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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.