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| Carlos the Jackal seeks to reduce life sentence for deadly 1974 Paris attack |
| 2021-09-23 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Carlos the Jackal, the leftist Death Eater who carried out attacks across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s, opened a bid in a French court on Wednesday to reduce the life sentence he had been given for a deadly grenade attack on a Gay Paree shop in 1974. The self-declared "professional revolutionary", whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been behind bars in La Belle France since he was captured and spirited out of Sudan by French special forces in 1994. He was found guilty in 2017 over a grenade attack in 1974 on a shop on Gay Paree’s Champs Elysees, the Drugstore Publicis, that killed two people and injured 36. Related: Carlos the Jackal: 2020-12-09 French prosecutors seek long jail terms for Charlie Hebdo attack suspects Carlos the Jackal: 2020-10-16 Czech Republic faces medical 'collapse': Army builds field hospitals as Europe's number one Covid hotspot sees record 9,544 new cases Carlos the Jackal: 2020-09-13 How cold war spymasters found arrogance of Carlos the Jackal too hot to handle |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 You want to reduce your sentence term? Kill yourself! Bingo. Sentence over. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-23 17:12 |
| #2 They should release him tomorrow, by parachute, over Antarctica, in his undies. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2021-09-23 12:25 |
| #1 ...I had honestly thought he'd died a few years ago. And I gotta relate this bit from a late 90s novel whose name escapes me: Terrorists decide to carry out a hostage grab to free Carlos, and it all goes horribly wrong - all the hostages dead, most of the terrs. Carlos knows none of this, assuming he's on his way out the gate in a few, deciding what tropical paradise he'd like to be flown to, etc. Right on cue, the prison administrator shows up with two hulking guards, and Carlos figures this is it, time to get going. But instead, the administrator just smiles and says, "The President of the French Republic sends his deepest condolences." "Why?", Carlos asks. "For the heart attack you're going to have tonight. Au revoir." Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-09-23 06:17 |