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He arrived home in the early hours of Monday morning after the bureaucratic wheels were set in motion to bring him home to his wife and two small children.

French authorities apparently gave the green light to Canada before Diab’s transfer process from Paris began.

Diab, a Lebanon-born Canadian citizen who consistently denied involvement in the synagogue bombing, is scheduled to appear at a news conference on Wednesday at the office of Amnesty International in Ottawa.

French judicial investigators, who travelled to Beirut as part of their probe of Diab’s claims of innocence, said the academic’s claim that he was studying in Lebanon at the time of bombing appeared to be true.

With prosecutors and lawyers for the synagogue victims threatening appeals, the legal case theoretically remains open. It is unclear whether those appeals will proceed.

Diab fought a six-year legal battle against his extradition to France and his case brought an unprecedented spotlight on Canada’s extradition agreements with dozens of other countries.

Critics have described the law as a backwater in the Canadian justice system that enables Canada to send its citizen to requesting countries on the flimsiest of evidence.

Diab’s extradition judge, Robert Maranger, criticized the evidence presented by Canadian federal prosecutors acting for France but said the low threshold of extradition law gave him no choice but to recommend Diab’s extradition.

Maranger said it was unlikely that the French evidence would result in a conviction in a Canadian court.

Commenting on the case last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hinted that his government is open to reviewing Canada’s extradition law.

Many of the countries with which Canada has extradition agreements do not extradite their own citizens to any other foreign nation.

France is one of those countries.