ByREUTERS
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French judges on Thursday ordered a trial for six people in a special terrorism court over an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 43 years ago in which six people were killed and at least 20 others were injured, a judicial source said.

The bombing and shooting assault on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the heart of the Jewish district of the Marais quarter in August 1982 was the deadliest antisemitic attack in France at the time since World War II.

It came amid a wave of violence involving Palestinian terrorists. There has been no previous trial related to the case.

In the 1982 attack, two groups of men, arriving separately, used first grenades and then machine guns against customers and staff at the Ashkenazi restaurant on Rue des Rosiers.

French media at the time reported that the men were believed to be members of the Fatah-Revolutionary Council (Fatah-RC), a radical Palestinian dissident group then based in Iraq and led by Abu Nidal.

The commemorative plaque is pictured during a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the so called ''Rue des Rosiers'' or ''Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant'' attack, a bombing and shooting attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris, on August 9, 2022
The commemorative plaque is pictured during a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the so called ''Rue des Rosiers'' or ''Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant'' attack, a bombing and shooting attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris, on August 9, 2022 (credit: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)

Who are the alleged terrorists being tried?

Earlier this month, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) had requested the trial of Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, suspected of being one of the gunmen behind the attack and detained in France since the end of 2020.

Arrest warrants for the suspects have been issued, although in the case of four of them it is not known whether they are currently in France. No date has been set for the trial as the suspects have 10 days to appeal.