Posted on 03/13/2017 7:52:33 AM PDT by tekrat
Once the world’s most-wanted fugitive, the political extremist known as Carlos the Jackal appeared in a French court Monday for a deadly 1974 attack against a Paris shopping arcade, a trial that victims’ families awaited for decades.
The Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is accused of throwing a hand grenade from a mezzanine restaurant onto a shopping area in the French capital’s Latin Quarter. Two people were killed and 34 injured at the trendy Drugstore Publicis.
Known worldwide as Carlos, the 67-year-old is already serving a life sentence in France for a series of murders and attacks he has been convicted of perpetrating or organizing in the country on behalf of the Palestinian cause or communist revolution in the 1970s and ‘80s.
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http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Carlos_The_Jackal
Carlos the Jackal is the main antagonist in the Bourne Trilogy.
Carlos the Jackal figures prominently in Robert Ludlum’s Bourne Trilogy. In the Trilogy, Carlos is depicted as the world’s most dangerous assassin whose trademark execution is a single well placed bullet in the throat, a man with international contacts that allow him to strike efficiently and anonymously at locations anywhere on the globe. His actual name (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) is used and details - a mixture of fact and fiction - are given about his upbringing and training, including the fictional account that he trained with Russian intelligence at Novgorod.
In the Trilogy he keeps residence in France disguised as a priest, protected by a close network of contacts. In the Bourne Identity a relatively small amount is revealed about him but he factors prominently in the plot of the book because the title character, Jason Bourne, was an American black-ops officer whose mission was to usurp Carlos as the world’s preeminent assassin in order to draw him out of hiding so that he could be killed or captured. During this book, it is “revealed” that Carlos in fact orchestrated the Kennedy assassination.
In the second book, The Bourne Supremacy, Carlos is not a significant character and is understood to be in hiding. However, in The Bourne Ultimatum, the final book of the trilogy, Carlos and Bourne are pitted against each other again in which their feud finally end when The Jackal drowns in the river bordering the KGB traning facility which he was trying to blow up.
Carlos the Jackal is not mentioned in the Bourne film adaptations that star Matt Damon, although The Guardian newspaper, credited with giving Carlos his “Jackal” moniker, is featured in The Bourne Ultimatum film.
This is literally like a French Farce. The convict is already imprisoned for life, so why not conduct the trial just by examining evidence. The murders were a very long time ago, so testimony may not be accurate. Most importantly, why put the families of the murder victims through this whole procedure.
Just inform them of any ‘result’ once the trial has concluded.
Humanly, I’m scandalized that this man still lives, but all things in God’s time.
IIRC, when the original Bourne books were written, the real Carlos the Jackal was still free, presenting more a sense of myth than reality - something an author could easily integrate into a work to lend believability while still able to avoid the pesky problem of facts.
That may now detract from the books, with the relatively new reality that Carlos was captured, his facts revealed, and is objectively imprisoned - all deflating the myth.
Good to see someone else remembered this.
The terror wave of the 70s and 80s was to a large part financed and ideologically driven by the Soviets. In those days the intellectuals and politicians on the middle and left refused to see any connection between Russia and the terrorists. Even the CIA (apart from people Bill Casey brought in) did its utmost to put down any idea that Russia was behind the terror attacks on Western Europe.
O tempora, o mores.
Likewise. I’d expect someone like him, held by a country like that, to be at room temperature by now - be it by law or by vengeance. You’d think someone would have arranged an accident with a shiv already.
Agree fully. He should have been hanged long time ago.
The attack on the Paris mall is just one of the terror attacks in Western Europe that has until now not been fully resolved. Another one is the bombing of the train station in Bologna 2 August 1980 which killed some 85 people and injured scores more. Two people (fascists) have been convicted for the attack, but not that long ago it was found that the Italian police had been aware that three people who were part of Carlos’s network arrived in Bologna the day before the terror attack. Coincidence?
Run him through “extraordinary rendition” to find out what he knows (or knew...) and drop his mangled corpse in a lonely grave.
Once someone like this convicted, that is the only proper way to deal with them.
Ping.
The important take away is that Marxists (Leftists) and Islamists have been and always will be allies.
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