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| - A suspect linked to a 1982 attack in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris, where six people were killed, has appealed a Norwegian court's ruling on his extradition to France, his lawyer said Monday. Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, a Palestinian who became a Norwegian citizen in 1997, is wanted by French authorities on suspicion of being one of the shooters in the attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris's Marais district. The attack on August 9, 1982, which left six people dead and 22 injured, was blamed on the Abu Nidal Organisation, a splinter group of the militant Palestinian Fatah group. Abu Zayed, who has lived in Norway since 1991, has maintained his innocence. On Friday, an Oslo district court ruled that the conditions for granting extradition to France had been met. "It's been appealed," Abu Zayed's lawyer, Ole-Martin Meland, told AFP, adding that a written statement detailing the objections would be filed with the court of appeal on Tuesday. Once the judicial process is completed, the decision of whether to extradite Abu Zayed will be up to Norway's justice ministry, or ultimately, the government. If the courts determine there are no legal obstacles, the government could still decline on humanitarian or other grounds. France has requested Abu Zayed's extradition before, but Norway has had a policy of not extraditing its nationals. However, a recently implemented deal between the EU and Norway and Iceland has ironed out the difficulties and paved the way for extradition. phy/jll/gd
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