Posted on 02/11/2005 12:03:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
Not only do they share the same first name but now, Charles Sobhraj aka the Serpent, serving a life term in a Kathmandu prison for the murder of an American backpacker, and Carlos the Jackal, the most dreaded terrorist in the 70s who masterminded the killing of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics of 1972, will now be sharing the same lawyer as well.
Since Sobhrajs arrest in 2003 he has been serving out a 20-year jail term in the city. After a long delay, his appeal will be finally decided in the Patan appellate court on March 10.
Last week Sobhrajs French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre flew to Kathmandu unnoticed to meet her client. The 50-plus French woman represents Venezuela-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, who admits to having killed over 1,500 people for the Palestine cause. Coutant-Peyre had defended Carlos first wife Magdalena Kopp, a German revolutionary. Carlos later converted to Islam and married her in 2001.
The slender, gamin Coutant-Peyre displays a fondness for ethnic jewellery, cigars and controversial clients. She also says the court never called any witness or allowed Sobhraj to present his. Besides, the whole trial was conducted in Nepalese which Sobhraj did not understand. It is a contravention of the international convention that Nepal signed in 1991.
C S - a really, really, nasty piece of work, and a guy who is almost unheard-of in the US.
A terrorist-groupie lawyer. Go figure.
Read that one too, years ago. Had trouble sleeping for a while. Awful story.
I never heard that Carlos the Jackal had anything to do with the Munich Massacre.
Ping.
Charles Sobhraj is a serial killer who was active in Asia, including India, Thailand, and maybe other countries. He had a habit of luring tourists back to his apartment, plying them with drugs and doing them in. He is of mixed Vietnamese-Indian background, and has been embraced by the French as something of a celebrity, because while he is a monster, he "shows" well - glib, intelligent, and strikes all the clever poses. He had been in jail in India, but escaped to France, where he ensconced himself as a sort of warped bon-vivant and charged people large sums of money to interview him. He was writing a book, or was offered money to do so, or something. For some reason he decided to leave France and wound up in Nepal, where he has been arrested for a murder of a California woman that occurred in Nepal many years ago, while Sobhraj was there.
Interesting how the fans of this guy complain he has been dealt some sort of injustice. These lawyers are not interested in Justice. They are interested in seeing how far they can use the law to protect and promote attacks on the human race. They seek to spring guys like this, or Mumia, etc., not because they believe they are innocent, but because they know these guys are guilty, and want their evil to flourish and grow.
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