A FRENCH judge on Wednesday opened an inquiry into allegations of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi involvement in the deadly 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Africa, judicial sources said. The sources said anti-terrorist magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere decided to open the inquiry following complaints filed by relatives of the 170 victims of the attack, who allege that Gadaffi was “an accomplice to murder”. The DC-10 airliner owned by French company UTA exploded over the desert in Niger on September 19, 1989. The move reopens long years of judicial and diplomatic friction over the bombing which appeared to have been settled last July, when Libya paid more than 200-million francs to compensate the families of those killed in the disaster.