Canadian police have captured a man suspected of bombing a Paris synagogue in 1980. The man, Hassan Diab, was nabbed on Thursday in the city of Gatineau, according to Reuters. French judges issued an international arrest warrant for Diab several days earlier.
Diab, 54, is accused of planting a bomb on a motorbike on Rue Copernic in Paris, outside a synagogue. The resulting explosion killed four people, three French men and one Israeli woman, and wounded 20. No terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bomb went off just minutes before a large crowd was to leave the synagogue following the Friday night prayer service.
Investigators say Diab holds both Lebanese and Canadian citizenship. He also spent time in the United States. He worked as a sociology lecturer in Ottawa.
The investigation into the 27-year-old bombing was reopened following the discovery of a small terrorist group now believed to have perpetrated the attack. The group was opposed to Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organization, investigators say.