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TheChez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack was a bombing and shooting attack on aJewish restaurant in the Parisien district ofMarais on 9 August 1982 carried out by the Palestinian militantAbu Nidal Organization, a group that splintered fromPLO. 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 sinceWorld War II."[3][4] The restaurant closed in 2006 and former owner Jo Goldenberg died in 2014.[5]
Although theAbu 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 Abu 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]
In July 2025 French prosecutors requested a trial for Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, Nizar Tawfik Mussa and Mahmoud Khader.[15][16] In September 2025, the Palestinian Authority arrested Mahmoud Khader, alias Hicham Harb, with the French Government planning to extradite him to France for trial.[17]
In March 2015, French authorities said that an internationalarrest warrant had been issued in connection with the case for three men who belonged to the organization. The suspects were identified as living inNorway,Jordan andRamallah in thePalestinian territories.[24] Mahmoud Khader Abed, 59, living inRamallah are still being sought as of 2025.[8]
In June 2015, a Palestinian named Zuhair Mohammed Hassan Khalid al-Abbasi, also known as "Amiad Atta," was arrested in Jordan, according to the Paris prosecutor's office, which also said that France has requested extradition.[1] On June 17, Jordan released al-Abbasi on bail.[25]
Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed (born 1957/1958), who had become a Norwegian citizen since the attack, is in French custody as of December 2020.[26]
On 19 September 2025, the Palestinian Authority detained the suspect Mahmoud Khidr Abed Adra, also known as Hisham Harb (born 1955). French President Emmanuel Macron praised the "excellent cooperation with the Authority" and said the French government was working with the PA for Harb's extradition to France.[17]
On 9 September 2020, Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, a Norwegian citizen, was arrested byNorwegian Police Security Service responding to the international arrest warrant issued by France in 2015.[27][28][29][30]
In December 2020, he was being held atLa Sante Prison in Paris.[31] In December 2021, the pre-trial detention was extended for another six months; trial date had not been set as of Q1 2022.[13][32][33]
Media said in February 2022 that the French police's view is that Zayed has not told the truth about his travels in 1982;[13] during one interrogation he said that he had never been to France. In other interrogations he said that he had been toMonte Carlo.[13]
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^Charters, David (1994).The deadly sin of terrorism: its effect on democracy and civil liberty in six countries. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 108.ISBN0313289646.
