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Dec 2024
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Introducing: The Copernic Affair (Offici...

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A sociology professor’s quiet life in Canada gets turned upside down when he is accused of carrying out a 1980 bomb attack on a synagogue in Paris. Hassan Diab says he is innocent — but French investigators are determined to prove otherwise.


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