‘The Jackal’ returns

Press, 8 March 1982, Page 8

‘The Jackal’ returns

NZPA-Reuter Paris The international terrorist known as Carlos has given the French Government an ultimatum to release two guerrilla suspects arrested in Paris last month. French Interior Ministry officials have said. Carlos, wanted by the police world-wide for a series of spectacular operations in the 197(is. issued the ultimatum in a letter handed in to the French Embassy in The Hague, they said. It was signed with a thumbprint, authenticated by the Frerich D.S.T. security service, they added. Carlos, born Ilich Ramirez

Sanchez in 1949. said he would carrv out ari unspecified strike at the French Government unless the man and woman guerrilla suspects were released at once. Justice sources said the detained suspects were Magdalena Kaupp. aged 34. a West German, and Bruno Breguet. aged 31. a Swiss, arrested with explosives in Paris on February 16. The French authorities were taking the threat seriously and the police were tightening security around leading Government figures, officials said. The daily newspaper, “France Soir," said the Carlos letter singled out the

Interior Minister (Mr Gaston Deferre), who is also Mayor of Marseilles, as a target. The name of Carlos, also known as The Jackal, has been linked with dozens of assassinations and kidnappings claimed by Middle Eastern European. African, and Japanese guerrillas. In his biggest operation, he planned and led the gang that kidnapped 11 Oil Ministers in Vienna in December. 1975. and flew them to the Middle East. He was last reported, by the London "Sunday Times" in September, to be helping the Syrian Government plot the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein, of Iraq.