FRANCE/VIENNA: CONVICTED TERRORIST CARLOS THE JACKEL WILL TESTIFY IN HANS-JOACHIM KLEIN'S TRIAL IN FRANKFURT

Record ID: 352142

  • Title: FRANCE/VIENNA: CONVICTED TERRORIST CARLOS THE JACKEL WILL TESTIFY IN HANS-JOACHIM KLEIN'S TRIAL IN FRANKFURT
  • Date: 28th November 2000
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (NOVEMBER 28, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF PARIS COURT OF JUSTICE 0.03 2. SLV VAN ARRIVING WITH ILLICH RAMIREZ SANCHEZ, KNOWN AS CARLOS THE JACKAL 0.13 3. SLV POLICE OUTSIDE COURT OF JUSTICE 0.15 4. SV SANCHEZ'S LAWYER ISABELLE COUTANT-PEYRE IN COURTROOM 0.20 5. MCU (French) CARLOS' LAWYER IS
  • Embargoed: 13th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE AND AUSTRIA, VIENNA
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  • Country: Austria France
  • Reuters ID: LVABP61YIHQCPS1AFN4VQTBKL3R5
  • Story Text: Convicted terrorist Illich Ramirez Sanchez, known
    as Carlos the Jackal will testify in the trial of his former
    comrade-in-arms Hans-Joachim Klein about their involvement in
    a 1975 attack against an OPEC conference in Vienna.



    A delegation from a German court had to travel to
    Paris on Tuesday (November 28) to question Carlos the Jackal
    after the French Justice Ministry rejected, for security
    concerns, a request by a German court to allow Carlos the
    Jackal to serve as a witness in Hans-Joachim Klein's trial in
    Frankfurt.

    Carlos, a Venezuelan, is currently serving a life sentence
    in France for murder.

    He was allegedly the mastermind behind the 1975 attack in
    Vienna, in which three people were killed when a gang,
    including Klein, began taking hostages.

    The guerillas said they belonged to a group called the
    "Arm of the Arab Revolution".

    Klein was shot and seriously injured in the stomach during
    the kidnapping, but was treated and allowed to fly to Algiers
    with his accomplices and their hostages. He later took refuge
    in Libya before going underground.

    Two years later he split from Carlos and, in a dramatic
    gesture, mailed his pistol to Germany's Der Spiegel Magazine
    together with a list of operations planned by Carlos.

    Living under a false name, Klein moved from country to
    country and finally settled in France where he worked as a
    journalist under the pseudonym Dirk Claussen.

    He was tracked down and arrested in 1998 and later
    extradited to Germany.

    Klein, now 52, has been on trial since early October. He
    has never disputed his part in the hostage-taking in Vienna
    but denies the murder and attempted murder charges and has
    long been repentant for his terrorist past. Klein has accused
    Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi of being personally behind the
    attack.
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