Attack on rue des Rosiers: forty years later, a first national tribute and still no trial

The attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant on August 9, 1982 had killed six people and twenty-two injured. The Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, insisted on Tuesday on France’s commitment to fight anti-Semitism.

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For the first time in forty years, a national tribute was paid on Tuesday August 9, to the victims of the attack on rue des Rosiers, which had left six dead and twenty-two injured on August 9, 1982. The Ceremony was held at the crossroads of rue des Rosiers and Ferdinand-Duval Street, in the 4 ^e arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Jewish district of the Marais. The attack, which had started at 1:15 p.m., aimed at customers and staff of the Ashkénaze Jo Goldenberg restaurant, first attacked at the grenade and then machine-gunned by two groups of armed men who arrived separately, alleged members of the revolutionary Fatah-Conseil (Fatah-CR), a Palestinian dissident radical group at the time based in Iraq and led by the terrorist Abou Nidal.

occurred almost two years after the attack on the synagogue on rue Copernic (16 e arrondissement of Paris), that of rue des Rosiers marked, at the time and for a long time , the most serious anti -Semitic attack in France since the Second World War. It was therefore necessary to wait four decades that the State and the City of Paris pay a joint tribute to the victims and their loved ones.

“Why this anti -Semitic act?”

In addition to the ambassadors of Israel, the United States and Norway, Tuesday’s ceremony was held in the presence of an assistant from the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, a representative of the mayor of Paris- Center, Ariel Weil, of the deputy of Paris Clara Chassaniol (Renaissance) and the president of the representative council of the Jewish institutions of France (CRIF), Yonathan Arfi. The Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, spoke last to ensure the victims and their relatives of the solidarity of the State.

Before the Minister of Justice, two victims of the attack spoke. Obviously very moved and tired, Jacqueline Niego, 83, who lost her big brother André in the attack, could not finish reading the text she had prepared. She had time to remember that he had escaped Nazi barbarism by hiding with her sister. Then she insisted: “For us, families, the same questions have been for forty years. Why this anti-Semitic act? What are the real sponsors? How could they [the terrorists] have crossed our borders so easily? Without real answers. “She welcomed extradition, by Norway, of a suspect in December 2020. He is the only one in pre -trial detention in France to date.

Palestinian of Norwegian nationality, Walid Abdulrahman Abou Zayed, 63, was indicted for assassinations and attempted assassinations. He claims his innocence and denies both his membership in the Fatah-CR as his presence in France at the time of the facts. He only admits having followed a training in the camps of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon, at the very beginning of the 1980s, then having emigrated clandestinely in Norway in 1991 with his wife and two children. The investigating judges are based, within the framework of its indictment, on the testimonies of former Fatah-CR activists who incriminate it. An assessment validated by the investigating chamber, which refused to question the indictment.

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