Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack

Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack
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Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant in 2005
LocationRue des Rosiers, Paris, France
Date9 August 1982
Attack type
Bombing and shooting
Deaths6
Injured22
PerpetratorsAbu Nidal Organization
No. of participants
2 or more

The Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack was a bombing and shooting attack on a Jewish restaurant in the Parisien district of Marais on 9 August 1982 carried out by the Palestinian militant Abu Nidal Organization, a group that splintered from PLO. Two assailants threw a grenade into the dining room, then rushed in and fired machine guns.[1] They killed six people, including two Americans, Ann Van Zanten, a curator at the Chicago Historical Society, and Grace Cutler,[2] and injured 22 others. Mrs. Van Zanten's husband, David, an art history professor at Northwestern University, was among the injured.[2] BusinessWeek later said it was "the heaviest toll suffered by Jews in France since World War II."[3][4] The restaurant closed in 2006 and former owner Jo Goldenberg died in 2014.[5]

Although the Abu Nidal Organization had long been suspected,[6][7] suspects from the group were only definitively identified 32 years after the attacks, in evidence given by two former Abu Nidal members granted anonymity by French judges.[8]

In December 2020 one of the suspects, Walid Abdulrahman Abou Zayed, was handed over to French police (at a Norwegian airport) and flown to France.[9][10][11] He was still in detention as of Q3 2022.[12][13]

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  5. ^ "Owner of famous Paris Jewish restaurant dies". Jerusalem Post. 12 May 2014. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  6. ^ Massoulié, François (2003). Middle East conflicts. Interlink Books. p. 98. ISBN 1566562376.
  7. ^ Charters, David (1994). The deadly sin of terrorism: its effect on democracy and civil liberty in six countries. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 108. ISBN 0313289646.
  8. ^ Samuel, Henry (June 17, 2005). "Suspected mastermind of 1982 Paris Jewish restaurant attack 'bailed in Jordan'". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  9. ^ "Un suspect de l'attentat de la rue des Rosiers en 1982 à Paris mis en examen". 5 December 2020.
  10. ^ "Norsk-palestiner utlevert i fransk terrorsak". 4 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Terrortiltalt norskpalestiner utleveres til Frankrike". 27 November 2020.
  12. ^ https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/advokat-reagerer-pa-fengslingsforholdene-til-terrortiltalt-norsk-palestiner-1.16061000. NRK.no
  13. ^ https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/telefonforbud-opphevet-for-terrortiltalt-norskpalestiner-1.15863499. NRK