France's Justice Minister Calls for Investigation of TV Interview With Terrorist (Carlos the Jackal)

AP ^ | Mar. 8, 2004

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France's Justice Minister Calls for Investigation of TV Interview With Terrorist

Mar 8, 2004

The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) - France's justice minister asked judicial officials Monday to explain how jailed terrorist Carlos the Jackal was able to conduct an interview with a French TV station without permission. Justice Minister Dominique Perben said the remarks amounted to "a justification for terrorism" - a crime in France. Perben said prison authorities had not authorized any request for the telephone interview from the channel.

The convicted terrorist, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, told television station M6 that he refused to ask forgiveness from his victims.

Ramirez, a Venezuelan, was arrested in Sudan in 1994 and handed over to France, where he is serving a life sentence for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informer.

Ramirez gained international notoriety during the Cold War for staging a string of deadly bombings, assassinations and hostage seizures.

He is suspected of involvement in the 1976 Palestinian hijacking of a French jetliner in flight to Entebbe, Uganda and the 1975 seizure of OPEC oil ministers at the cartel's headquarters in Vienna.

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There was a great show about this guy a few weeks ago. He is a complete and total fraud. He is totally incompetent, and took credit for every operation under the sun, whether he had anything to do with it or not. In the few instances he is known to have been personally involved, the attacks were total failures.

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Well, I don't know if he's a "complete fraud". He Is serving a life sentence..........