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A “deeply shocked” Hassan Diab issued a statement from jail Thursday hours after hearing that Canada’s top court had refused to hear his appeal against extradition to France, where he is a prime suspect in the fatal 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue.

“I have been living a Kafkaesque nightmare for over six years, fighting false allegations against me, enduring detention, strict bail conditions, the loss of my employment and enormous stress on my family,” Diab said.

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“It is beyond devastating that the Supreme Court would allow my extradition for a crime that I did not commit based on a handwriting analysis that was shown by world-renowned handwriting experts to be wholly unreliable, totally erroneous and biased.

“It is a shock that this would happen in Canada.”

The Supreme Court’s decision means that Diab will be taken to Paris by French police within the next 45 days.

Once in the French capital, the 60-year-old academic will appear before an investigating judge — the beginning of an investigation that his lawyers say could last two years.