France has issued international arrest warrants for three men suspected of involvement in a deadly attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, a judicial source told the news agency AFP on Wednesday.
The three suspects who live in Jordan, Norway and the West Bank were named as part of the long-running investigation into the attack on the Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant that left six people dead and 22 injured.
The attack took place on 9 August 1982 when a grenade was thrown into the busy restaurant in the Marais district, a popular and largely Jewish neighborhood in the center of Paris. Two men then entered the restaurant, which had around 50 customers inside, and opened fire with machine guns.
Between three and five men are thought to have taken part in the attack, which was blamed on the Abu Nidal Organization, a now-defunct Palestinian terror group. They opened fire on passers-by as they escaped down the street, using WZ-63 Polish-made machine guns. The suspects are a 59-year-old living in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Territories, a 56-year-old in Norway and a 62-year-old in Jordan.
Their warrants were issued on 20 February, the judicial source told AFP, by counter-terrorism judge Marc Trevidic who is now overseeing the investigation.
