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**Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted By Alain**

France has issued international arrest warrants for 3 men involved in an 1982 bombing/shooting at a Parisian Jewish deli that killed 6 people including 2 Americans and wounded 22.

“…the identification of the three suspects in the deli attack was the culmination of years of investigation by French law enforcement officials…”

Years of investigation! 33 to be exact. Holding my breath for the actual arrests, extradition, trials, and sentences. Will that be a 132 year wait, Monsieur Clouseau?

Via NYT: Paris Seeks 3 Suspects in 1982 Attack on Jewish Deli

For more than three decades, the case, at the time considered the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in France sinceWorld War II, remained unsolved, stumping investigators and haunting the Jewish community in Paris.

The attack in 1982 at a storied Jewish deli killed six people, including two Americans, and wounded 22 others. The police said at the time that the attack on the deli, Goldenberg, on Rue des Rosiers, a narrow and lively street in the Marais district now peppered with falafel restaurants and Judaica shops, had been meticulously planned and involved as many as six assailants. During the attack, one of the attackers threw a grenade into the restaurant while the others fired at customers.

They escaped on foot, shooting as they fled. Then they vanished.

In 2007, a new investigating judge, Marc Trévidic, then 41, took over the case. And on Wednesday, after years of hunting down leads across several continents, the authorities in Paris announced that they had identified three suspects, all associated with a prominent Palestinian terrorist, and sought to bring them into custody….

None of the three suspects have been arrested, and it was unclear when they might be or, if it came to that, whether they would be extradited to France.

Kurt Lorenz, of Nevada City, Calif., whose sister Ann Van Zanten, a 31-year-old architectural historian, was killed in the Goldenberg attack, said that the identification of the suspects had brought a sense of relief after a very long ordeal. He commended Mr. Trévidic.

“It really, really matters that somebody cared,” he said by phone, sobbing. “It has been so long, everyone had sort of buried it.”