Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said he would follow up on pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Abdallah’s case in order to speed up his release from French prison.
“[Charbel] promised us to form a ministerial committee to discuss this case with French authorities,” the National News Agency quoted Georges Abdallah’s brother, Joseph, as saying following his Monday meeting with the interior minister.
A French court last week postponed its decision until January 28 on whether to release Abdallah, who is awaiting an order from the French Interior Ministry to deport him from the country.
The activist was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison three years later for his involvement in the 1982 murders of US military attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris.
He had been eligible for parole from 1999 onwards but failed in seven previous bids to be released
Also, Charbel met with General Security Director General Abbas Ibrahim to discuss the case of the 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who were abducted in May 2012 in Syria’s Aleppo while returning from a pilgrimage in Iran.
