France has welcomed news that a suspect in an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 43 years ago, in which six people were killed and at least 20 others injured, has been detained by Palestinian authorities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot posted on X that the arrest had been made possible by President Emmanuel Macron's decision to recognise an independent Palestinian state on Monday, "enabling us to request extradition".

Macron welcomed the co-operation with the Palestinian Authority, adding: "We are working together towards a swift extradition".

At the time, the grenade and gun attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the heart of the Jewish district of the Marais quarter in August 1982 was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in France since World W

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