On October 3rd, 1980, a bomb was detonated outside a synagogue on Copenhagen Street in Paris.

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

A Lebanese Canadian sociology professor, living a quiet life on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada.

Is Hassan Diab guilty?

Can you introduce to yourself?

Or is the scapego? Hassan Diev guilty? Can you introduce yourself? Or is the escapego?

Hassan Diab.

From Canada land, this is the Copernic affair.

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This is a CBC podcast.

There was a knock. there was a discovery, and then suddenly there were two Ronald Platt's.

One dead in the coroner's freezer in Devon, and the other walking around, paying bills and charming neighbors in a small village in Essex.

The police had accidentally figured out that the man they had interviewed nearly two months ago, who they knew as David Davis, and who told them he was a close friend of Ronald Platt's,

was now possibly living as Ronald Platt.

So now, a death which up until this point had been understood to most likely either be a boating accident or a suicide was a big question mark, followed by an exclamation mark.

I guess it's at that point that you, I guess, a bit more switched on to, right,

okay, we need to step this up a level.

For investigators, the Doer Knock Revelation had so thoroughly flipped everything on its head

that the detectives like Bill McDonald were forced to look backwards

at the work they'd already done

to see if there was anything

that jumped out under this new light.

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