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BEIRUT – Despite the French Enforcement Court\u2019s decision in mid-November to release the longest-held political prisoner Georges Abdallah next February, the \u201cOffice of External Litigation at the US Department of Justice\u201d is pressing hard to appeal the decision, describing the ruling as \u201cextremely dangerous\u201d and \u201cnot in the interests of the United States, France or Lebanon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
George Abdallah was born on April 2, 1951, in northern Lebanon to a Maronite Christian family. He became involved in political work at the age of 15 and completed his studies at the Teachers\u2019 College. In the 1970s, he joined the \u201cPopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1980, GA and others founded the \u201cLebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions,\u201d an anti-imperialist Marxist movement that claimed responsibility for 5 attacks in Europe between 1981 and 1982 as part of resistance in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n
GA was convicted of complicity in the assassination of Yakov Barsimantov, second secretary of Israel’s embassy in France, and US diplomat Charles Robert Day in Paris in 1982, as well as the attempted assassination of US Consul General Robert Aum in Strasbourg in 1984.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the statement submitted to the French court, the \u201cOffice of External Litigation at the US Department of Justice\u201d points out that GA\u2019s detention was necessary to prevent him from rejoining his \u201cterrorist\u201d family, as he did not abandon his firm position on resistance against any occupation of Lebanon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The French judiciary has not found any evidence against Abdullah, except for some publications indicating GA\u2019s affiliation with the \u201cLebanese Revolutionary Armed Brigades,\u201d which was accused at the time of planning a number of resistance operations, and a forged Algerian passport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When he appeared before the court for the first time, in July 1986, GA was only charged with using a \u201cforged travel document,\u201d according to the memoirs of Jacques Attali, advisor to former French President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Besides, the defense team member, lawyer Isabelle Coutin-Bayer, has revealed that on February 28, 1987, GA was suddenly summoned to trial on charges of possessing weapons in his \u201csecret hideouts and apartments,\u201d which the court used as evidence \u201cof his participation in the guerrilla operations carried out by the Lebanese Revolutionary Brigades in France in 1982.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
GA was then sentenced to life imprisonment \u201cdespite the defense team\u2019s protest that the evidence was not included in the original case file and was fabricated later.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2001, another member of the defense team, lawyer Jean-Paul Mazurier, admitted in an interview with Lib\u00e9ration how French intelligence recruited him to make Abdallah entrust him until he was sent to meet his comrades in the \u201cRevolutionary Brigades\u201d in Lebanon, which made it easier for French intelligence to gather evidence against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2012, former French intelligence chief Yves Younis also admitted that the trial was a \u201csecurity conspiracy that violated the law,\u201d adding, \u201cIndeed, we acted like criminals in this case; it is time to put an end to the great injustice we have inflicted on Georges Abdallah.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
On July 6, 2024, Radio France\u2019s investigation broadcasted CIA documents exposing the US pressure \u2013 especially from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton \u2013 on Paris regarding GA. \u00a0The investigation further addressed the responsibility of the former pro-Zionist French Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, who obstructed the ruling to release GA in 2012. It also highlighted the complicity of Jean-Paul Mazurier, who was expelled from the Bar Association in 1987 for his dealings with French intelligence against his client.<\/p>\n
The Zionist organization B\u2019nai B\u2019rith launched an intensive campaign against the administration of the University of British Columbia in Canada to prevent the screening of the film \u201cFedayeen\u201d, which tells GA\u2019s grievance in a bid to prevent the Palestinian narrative from reaching Western public opinion, especially in academic circles, as it always seeks to monopolize universities to criminalize resistance and boycott the occupying entity. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The French judiciary has repeatedly blackmailed GA for his freedom by requiring him to apologize for his honorable past and to repent resistance, which he categorically rejected. In one of the trials, GA famously said: \u201cI am a fighter, not a criminal,\u201d stressing that \u201cthe path I have taken was dictated by the human rights abuses committed against Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn previous years, we were suffering from intimidation campaigns and disinformation against GA and his family in the French press,\u201d says Alain Boujoula, one of the founders of the GA Liberation Collective and the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA).<\/p>\n
Until his supposed release in February, the alleged \u201cintegrity\u201d of the French judiciary will be tested again, knowing that GA\u2019s case has been marred \u2013 for 40 years \u2013 by a lot of intrigue and politicization in flagrant violation of French laws that stipulate that those sentenced to life imprisonment must be released after a maximum of 18 years, meaning that GA\u2019s release was due in 1999.<\/p>\n
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