PARIS — France's president on Friday welcomed the arrest this week in the occupied West Bank of a key Palestinian suspect in a 1982 terror attack in Paris, calling it the result of “excellent cooperation” with the Palestinian Authority.

The suspect, Hicham Harb, 70, was one of France’s most wanted men and a fugitive for decades. He is accused of overseeing the militants who stormed the Jo Goldenberg restaurant on Rue des Rosiers on Aug. 9, 1982, in a machine-gun and grenade attack that killed six people and wounded 22 — an assault that stunned the nation and scarred its Jewish community.

Attributed to the Abu Nidal Organization, a Palestinian militant group designated as terrorist by the United States and Europe, it remains the deadliest antisemitic attack in France since World War II. I

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