Overview
- Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra, also known as Hicham Harb, was flown to the Villacoublay airbase outside Paris on Thursday and placed in custody.
- Prosecutors suspect him of helping plan the Rue des Rosiers assault that killed six and wounded 22 at the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in 1982.
- Palestinian security forces arrested him in the West Bank in September 2025, and his lawyer now argues the handover breaks Palestinian law.
- France’s Court of Cassation ruled in February that a trial will go ahead, with two other suspects already detained in France.
- He is also wanted under a 1988 German warrant over a 1985 Frankfurt airport attack and has been suspected in a 1982 Rome synagogue attack.