Many thanks for your contributions and support. You are a great addition to the G2i family. EN At 04:40 PM 98 01 21 -0800, you wrote: >'The Jackal' loses bid to sue writer > > Copyright 1998 Nando.net > Copyright 1998 Reuters > > PARIS (January 21, 1998 6:55 p.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - A court on > Wednesday denied a plea by guerrilla mastermind Carlos the Jackal for > damages from a writer he accused of undermining his presumption of > innocence in connection with a Paris bombing. > > Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, had asked the Paris > civil law court for $89,500 in damages from French author and journalist > Bernard Violet. > > Carlos's lawyer Frederic Pariente told the court during a Dec. 4 hearing > that Violet, in his book "Carlos, International Terrorism's Secret > Networks," assumed that Carlos was behind a 1974 bomb explosion which > killed two people at the fashionable Drugstore St Germain in Paris. > > Lawyers for Violet, calling the suit "procedural terrorism," argued that > Carlos had boasted of the bombing in a 1979 interview published in the > daily al-Watan al-Arabi. Carlos has since denied giving the interview. > > The Paris court concluded that the book contained only factual > information and ordered Carlos to pay legal costs. > > A Paris criminal court jailed Carlos for life last December for the 1975 > murder of two unarmed French secret agents and their Lebanese informer. > > After blazing a trail of terror through Europe and the Middle East in > the 1970s and 1980s, Carlos has been in custody in France since he was > spirited into the country from Sudan by French secret agents in 1994. > >
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