Macron welcomes arrest in West Bank of Palestinian suspect in 1982 Paris attack

The scene of the attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris in 1982 (Aulnay/AP)

France’s president has welcomed the arrest this week in the occupied West Bank of a key Palestinian suspect in a 1982 terror attack in Paris, calling it the result of “excellent co-operation” with the Palestinian Authority.

The suspect, Hicham Harb, 70, is accused of overseeing the militants who stormed the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the Rue des Rosiers on August 9 1982.