Posted on 10/13/2001 4:48:22 PM PDT by janus
Carlos the Jackal to wed his lawyer
Jon Henley in Paris
Saturday October 13, 2001
The Guardian
The ageing, twice-married but still romantically inclined terrorist mastermind Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, plans to marry his French lawyer, the bride-to-be said yesterday.
"It's a marriage of love and of compatibility of ideas," said Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who continued to represent the Venezuelan-born revolutionary when half a dozen other lawyers had given him up as a lost cause.
"Between the image of him that is presented and the reality of what he is, there is a big difference," she said.
The marriage is expected to take place at La Santé prison in Paris, where Carlos, 51, is serving a life sentence for the murder of two French secret service agents and a suspected informer in 1975.
Carlos remains under investigation for a number of attacks committed in France in the 1970s. He makes regular appearances in court - usually sporting a silk cravat - where he gives his profession as "revolutionary in the Leninist tradition", and denounces his prosecutors as "illegitimate servants of world Zionism" who are aiming to "McDonald-ise humanity".
He is believed to be responsible for about 80 killings in the name of the Palestinian struggle and other revolutionary causes during the 1970s and 1980s, and is best known for masterminding the 1975 assault on an OPEC meeting in Vienna, where he and five others took a group of around 70 people hostage, including 11 oil ministers.
After years as one of the world's most wanted men, Carlos was finally captured in 1994 by French agents in Sudan, where he had converted to Islam and married a Muslim woman, and brought back to France trussed up in a sack.
During his more active years many women fell for his dapper charm and dangerous charisma. In the 1980s he married Magdalena Kopp, a German who was linked for nearly 20 years to the Revolutionary Cells terrorist group and suspected of aiding him in several attacks.
Ms Coutant-Peyre, who is also married, said divorce proceedings had been started on both sides in July and were almost over. She said she expected to be married to Ramirez by early next year "at the latest", but refused to describe the planned ceremony beyond saying: "It won't be done in a classic way."
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001
I am not sure what this phrase means, but I think it means that the Zionists are going to remove all the bacon from BLTs and substitute pastrami. Thus we will have to order PLTs. It sounds scary.
I am sure they deserve each other.
So the old Jackal is walking out on Magdalena Kopp, eh? He may come to regret that, perhaps. Hehehe.
And he is still alive, what comfort to all the families of his victims. /sarcasm
Guillotine, Sing your song and sing it LOUD!
I didn't realise she was still alive. It's amazing how a man whose very name spelled fear has become a character in a French farce.
She's a lawyer: same thing.
She's a lawyer: same thing.
Good point.
Oh, he's still dangerous. But so, I think, is Ms. Kopp :).
Alas, Madame Guillotine hasn't "sung" in La Belle France since 1968, or so. Quelle triste...
the infowarrior
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