Trial
During the trial in Créteil, France, Garabedian, where he was defended by Jacques Vergès (the victims of attack being defended by Gide Loyrette Nouel) denied his earlier confession of having planted the bomb, but was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on March 3, 1985. During the trial he admitted that he was the head of the French branch of the Armenian terrorist organization ASALA.
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