My mother told my brother that she will just go to the fruit store on Copernic Street

to bring some figs and that she will meet my brother in a few minutes.

But this was the last time my brother saw her.

The explosion was a year was. But this was the last time my brother saw her. On October 3rd, 19.8 o'clock in the synagogue, Israelite, liberal,

the Rupert, on October 3, 1980, a bomb was detonated outside a synagogue on Copernic Street in Paris.

It was a war zone.

It's a small street and it was covered with glass.

People running, people crying, blood all over, corpses.

It was a tremendous shock

because it was the first time

since maybe 30 years

that a bomb attack was

perpetrated in the street of Paris.

The most horrific, deadliest act of violence

against the Jewish community

in France since World War II

and it was unsolved.

And months went by, and years went by, and there were no leads.

There was no justice.

Three decades later, French investigators finally identified a suspect in the case.

A Lebanese sociology professor,

living a quiet life on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada.

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