A man accused of helping coordinate a deadly attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris more than four decades ago has arrived in France following his extradition by the Palestinian Authority. Hicham Harb, 72, also known as Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra, was detained on arrival at a military air base near the French capital on Thursday. He will be formally notified of the charges against him on Friday, according to France's national anti-terrorist prosecution office.

The attack took place on August 9, 1982, when a group of three to five men threw a grenade into the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the Marais, Paris's historically Jewish neighbourhood, before opening fire on customers. Six people were killed and 22 others wounded in what remains one of the most serious antisemitic attacks on French soil in the 1980s. The assault was attributed to the Fatah-Revolutionary Council, also known as the Abu Nidal group — a Palestinian splinter organisation that broke away from the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and carried out multiple attacks worldwide during the 1970s and 1980s. Harb is believed to have played a coordinating role in planning the assault.

Harb was arrested by Palestinian authorities in September 2025, shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron formally recognised a Palestinian state. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas later told the French newspaper Le Figaro that France's recognition had created