After a French court sentenced him to life in prison Friday and issued an international arrest warrant, Hassan Diab is again fearing the worst.
The extradition judge, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger, described the case against Diab as “weak” and said the prospect of his conviction was unlikely in a fair trial.
He was in solitary confinement much of that time, missing the birth of his youngest son in Ottawa and the death of his father in Lebanon. In January 2018, two investigative French magistrates dismissed the allegations against Diab due to a lack of evidence and ordered his release from jail without trial. The pair — Marc Herbaut and Richard Foltzer — said they found evidence to support Diab’s contention that he had been in Beirut, writing exams, at the time of the bombing. But the French court of appeal ruled in January 2021 that Diab must stand trial on the terrorism-related charges.
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