French authorities have arrested Hicham Harb, a suspect in the 1982 attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris that left six people dead and 22 wounded. The arrest comes more than four decades after the deadly shooting at the Goldenberg restaurant in the Rue des Rosiers district.

Harb is suspected of having directed the August 9, 1982 attack and of acting as one of the gunmen who opened fire on diners at the restaurant in Paris's historic Jewish quarter. The attack was one of several antisemitic incidents that struck France in the early 1980s.

The Goldenberg restaurant attack shocked France and highlighted rising antisemitic violence in the country. Two gunmen had entered the restaurant and opened fire with machine guns and threw grenades, killing six people including two children and wounding more than 20 others.

Harb had been living as a fugitive for decades before his recent arrest by French authorities. The case represents one of the longest-running investigations into terrorist attacks in France, with authorities continuing to pursue suspects more than 40 years after the incident.

The arrest comes as France continues to grapple with antisemitic violence and terrorism. French Jewish community leaders have long called for justice in the Goldenberg case, which remains one of the deadliest attacks on the Jewish community in post-war France.