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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Was Canadian professor Hassan Diab innocent or a scapegoat for France shul bombing?
Description: For the last two months, listeners around the world have been hearing a deeply reported true-crime podcast investigation – the first of its kind – into the notorious Canadian case of a mild-mannered Ottawa sociology professor, Hassan Diab, who France recently convicted of being the terrorist who blew up Paris’ historic Copernic Street synagogue in 1980.
Although Diab has no intention of serving out that life sentence in a French prison for the murders of four victims, and the wounding of many others: the professor from Carleton University claims he is innocent, was nowhere near Paris, was never mixed up in terrorism and is...