Highest French Court Revokes Parole for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
Featured image: Georges Abdallah’s arrival in Lebanon last month of July. Source: DPA / MARWAN NAAMAANI
The Court of Cassation, the supreme court for civil and criminal cases in France, overturned on Wednesday, April 1st, the conditional release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, achieved in July of the past year, after years of increasing mobilization. This decision has only a formal and symbolic character, since Georges Abdallah returned to his home in the past month of July.
The Court of Cassation indicated that the conditional release was wrongly ruled, since he should have been placed on first place under a regime of semi-liberty and electronic surveillance for at least one year. The lawyer of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Jean-Louis Chalanset, denounced the “total hypocrisy and ‘legal quackery’.” When his release was ruled, he stated: “It is both a legal victory and a political scandal that he was not released sooner, because of the behavior of the United States and all the successive French presidents.“
We extensively reported on the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, mobilizations demanding his release, etc.:
