Carlos during his appearance before the court
French 2001 (French)
Represents the Venezuelan Elish Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos on Monday before a French court to face for the first time since his arrest in Sudan in 1994, charges the commission of terrorist acts.
It was an ordinary criminal court jury has ruled popular in 1997, Carlos (61 years) to life imprisonment after being convicted of involvement in the killing of two policemen mid-seventies of the last century.
However, it will be this time before a special criminal court in Paris has seven judges, was formed to stand trial in cases of terrorism. And will be tried before on charges of involvement in four attacks killed eleven people and a hundred others injured in 1982 and 1983.
And stated in the indictment that Carlos was the mastermind of those attacks, and that he had sent then a threatening letter to the French Minister of Interior in an attempt to pressure the French authorities in order to free his two companions in his group, Magdalena cup - whom he married later - and Bruno Beguez.
The first of these attacks took place in March / March 1982 when a bomb exploded in a train traveling between Paris and Toulouse, killing five people. On the first day of the trial of my friend Carlos, he signed another bomb attack killed one person in Paris.
Then took place after the bombings at a train station in Marseille and in an express train in the Drome region of southeast France, succeeding five people by the French Security records.
Carlos and criticizes lawyers for the French judiciary by saying that he neglected the study of other hypotheses, and question the validity of documents and intelligence to the nations of the Warsaw Pact after 1989 allowed the detection to resume the investigation of the attacks attributed to the accused.
Carlos does not recognize lawyers for any of the attacks against him, and they owe also isolate the client ten days to that he held a press interview. And simultaneously, will be tried in absentia in France, three members of the group, including his assistant Carlos Johannes Weinrich sentenced in his native Germany to life in prison.
Source: French