Yesterday,the French court ordered the release of Georges Abdallah(74),a Lebanese resistance fighter and the longest-held political prisoner in Europe after he spent 41 years of his life languishing on prison.
The court released him on one condition that he must leave France territory and do not return, and he will be freed on 25 July 2025.
He was supposed to be released back in 1999 because in France if someone sentenced to life is expected to spend less than 30 years in prison.
His freedom was consistently obstructed by U.S and Israel interference which became an obstacle for him because several court approvals were ignored by French authorities.
The court first approved his release back in 2013 and another order was issued for his release in November 2024 and was expected to be free on 6 December 2024,and all were overturned due external pressure.
Back in 2015,it was revealed that Hillary Clinton who was U.S Secretary of State under the Obama administration ordered the French Foreign Minister at the time to keep Georges imprisoned, she claimed that he may return to the battlefield.
He was arrested in 1984,was accused of being involved in the killings of a U.S military attache and Israeli diplomat in Paris in 1982.
It was reported that he neither confirmed nor denied the allegations,over the years,he maintained that the French state and its authorities are complicit in the occupation of Lebanon and Palestine.
The news of his release was warmly welcomed by the masses of people across the globe including the Palestinian liberation movement such as Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP).
"The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine congratulates the comrade and internationalist fighter Georges Abdallah on the decision to release him after more than four decades spent in French prisons,in a heroic and exceptional defiance of the most heinous tools of imperialist oppression,and warns against any imperialist and Zionist pressures or attempts to thwart this decision,as happened previously.
This decision represents a victory for the will of steadfastness and revolutionary resilience,and at the same time embodies a victory for the cause of Palestine,whose banner this great progressive leader carried with pride and competence,"said PFLP statement.
PFLP added that the continued detention of comrade Abdallah,despite a judicial decision for his release,constituted a stain on the forehead of French and American imperialism,and a blatant complicity with the Zionist entity.It reminds that this arrest and detention is purely political,and represented a blatant violation of the law and decisions of the French judiciary.It commends his principled stance rejecting all attempts at blackmail and bargaining,and his legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance,considering it a legitimate option with no compromise.
Georges hails from a Lebanese village of Al-Qoubaiyat and he was the founder of the now-defunct Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions(LARF),and was inspired by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP).