Canadian university's new professor is convicted Islamist synagogue bomber who killed four

A Canadian assemblage is facing outrage for employing a convicted violent arsenic a teacher.

Ottawa's Carleton University hired 70-year-old Hassan Diab to thatch the third-year people Social Justice successful Action. 

Last year, Diab was convicted successful absentia by a French tribunal successful transportation with the 1980 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue successful Paris. 

The explosion, which killed 4 radical and injured 46, was the archetypal deadly onslaught against French Jews since World War II. 

It besides sparked the opening of a caller epoch of French antisemitic unit by Palestinian and Islamist terrorists. 

Diab fled to Canada aft being arrested successful 2008 and was progressive successful a six-year ineligible conflict to debar being extradited to France. 

He was yet extradited successful 2014, and aft years successful situation helium was placed connected location arrest, The Jerusalem Post reported. He reportedly fled to Canada that aforesaid day.  

Diab's employment sparked outrage, the Jewish work enactment B'nai B'rith sent a missive to the assemblage demanding his dismissal. 

Addressed to Carleton University president Jerry Tomberlin, the missive said that Diab's hiring 'raises important questions regarding Carleton's dedication to the information and well-being of its students and staff.' 

B'nai B'rith Canada posted a statement saying that 'despite being handed a beingness condemnation by a French court, Hassan Diab continues to unrecorded freely successful Canada, portion Carleton University, unconscionably, continues to let him the privilege of teaching astatine a Canadian Institution.' 

The enactment added that the assemblage ignored its ceremonial petition to terminate Diab's position, calling the institution's soundlessness 'deeply disturbing'. 

'Its determination to proceed to employment Diab not lone presents a information to the well-being of its students, but it is an insult to the representation of the guiltless victims of his heinous crimes and an affront to each Canadians who worth instrumentality and order,' they wrote.   

The sons of Israeli TV presenter Aliza Shragir, 1 of the victims of the bombing, said that employing Diab arsenic a lecturer was 'outrageous,' the Jerusalem Post reported. 

'It is outrageous that an world instauration that is expected to beforehand values of equality and justness decided to employment a cold-blooded murderer, who was unanimously convicted successful a tribunal successful France,' the sons said successful a statement.

'Apparently carrying retired a murderous violent enactment against a Jewish people does not spell against the values of Carleton University.'

Israel's Consul General successful Toronto, Idit Shamir, called Diab's employment 'unconscionable' successful a societal media post, calling it a 'failure of justice' that was 'spitting connected the graves of Jewish victims.' 

In July 2009, Diab was hired to thatch a people successful introductory sociology astatine Carleton.

Soon after, Diab's declaration was cancelled and assemblage officials said that helium had been replaced with idiosyncratic other 'in the involvement of providing students with a stable, productive world situation that is conducive to learning.' 

Today, Carleton's Department of Sociology and Anthropology stands firmly with Diab. On its website, it stated that Diab had been 'unjustly accused' and had antecedently facilitated events allowing him to archer his mentation of the story. 

A enactment connected its website speechmaking 'support for Hassan Diab' links to an authoritative connection from the section calling connected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former  Minister of Justice David Lametti to 'use their discretionary powers to state that Dr Hassan Diab volition not beryllium extradited successful effect to an extradition petition from France.' 

Previous rallies person been organized by the section demanding that the Canadian authorities garbage to extradite Diab, including a protestation extracurricular the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights monument successful 2022, the Jerusalem Post reported. 

In 2020, Diab and his household sued the Canadian Government for $90 cardinal implicit the relation it played successful his extradition, claiming 'intentional infliction of affectional distress' and 'malicious prosecution'. 

According to the Justice for Hassan Diab website, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association urged the Minister of Justice, Arif Virani, to cull the 2nd extradition of Diab. 

The website states that Diab was wrongfully extradited from Canada to France successful 2014 for his engagement successful the  bombing. It besides claims Diab spent 3 years successful a French situation 'before investigative judges determined that determination nary grounds linking him to the transgression and ordered his contiguous and unconditional release.' 

The people that Diab is employed to teach, Social Justice of Action, consists mostly of Diab reiterating his innocence. 

'The people puts cardinal accent connected miscarriages of justness successful the discourse of Canadian extradition law, with adjacent introspection of a high-profile extradition lawsuit that highlights pertinent issues,' The National Post reported. 

Diab's lawyers person agelong maintained that helium was successful Lebanon astatine the clip of the attacks and that his was a lawsuit of mistaken identity. 

After 4 pieces of grounds were determined to not beryllium important capable for a trial, his lawsuit was reopened successful 2021 by the French Supreme Court aft helium had already been backmost successful Canada. 

The pieces of grounds consisted of his passport showing him entering and exiting Europe conscionable earlier and conscionable aft the bombings. French authorities besides had grounds from friends alleging that Diab was connected the panic radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 

He besides is said to person matched a statement of the fig who planted the bomb, and yet handwriting analysts determined they recovered similarities betwixt Diab's and that of the fictional edifice registration card. 

A study successful 2021 from the Trudeau authorities concluded that Diab had not been treated otherwise than immoderate different Canadian but acknowledged 'discomfort' of the extradition process. 

'He was legally extradited having been afforded each due procedural protections,' it read. 'The information helium was not convicted successful France does not render the extradition process flawed.'