He is currently serving a life sentence at Lannemezan prison, France, for complicity in the 1982 murders of Charles R. Ray and Yacov Bar-Simantov.

[1][2][3] In early April 1984, police discovered a cache of weapons in his Paris hideout, including a Czech-made 7.65-caliber pistol, 55 pounds of explosives, rockets, submachine guns, and other arms.

[9] On October 24, 1984, Abdallah was driving to Lyon from Switzerland to pick up a deposit for an apartment when he was pulled over by chance by French police.

[9] Abdallah was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for complicity[10] in the 1982 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray, an assistant US military attaché and murder of Israeli diplomat Yaakov Bar-Simantov outside his home in Paris on 3 April 1982, as well as involvement in the attempted assassination of former American consul in Strasbourg Robert O. Homme, on 26 March 1984.

On 10 January 2013, Abdallah was granted parole on appeal by the Chamber of Sentences Application of Paris on the condition of an order of deportation from France.

[14] Victoria Nuland, spokeswoman of the US State Department, declared to the press the US government's objection to his release on 11 January 2013.

[18] In December 2013, the French city of Bagnolet (an eastern suburb of Paris) voted to make Abdallah an "honorary resident."

The city council's motion described him as a "communist activist" and a "political prisoner" who "belongs to the resistance movement of Lebanon" and is a "determined defender of the Palestinian just cause.