BEIRUT: Scores of protesters demonstrated outside the French embassy in Beirut yesterday as Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called “unjustified” a delay by Paris in releasing a Lebanese militant granted parole on a life sentence handed down in 1987.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 61, the former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction (LARF), was convicted for his part in the 1982 murders in Paris of US military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. A French court granted Abdallah parole in November on condition he be deported but a judicial source said yesterday the interior ministry had yet to issue the deportation order. The court postponed its decision on his release until January 28.AFP
