Johannes Weinrich (terrorist)

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Johannes Weinrich (born July 21, 1947 in Brakel ) is a German terrorist . He is a former member of the Revolutionary Cells and the Organization of Internationalist Revolutionaries ("Carlos Group"). He is considered the former right-hand man of the terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez , known as Carlos, the jackal . His attacks claimed up to 20 people dead and around 100 people were injured. In 2000 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed in Berlin in 1983 .

Life

Weinrich grew up in the small town of Schwerte near Dortmund as the son of a senior teacher. He then studied at the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he was an SDS and AStA member. He founded the Politische Buchhandlung GmbH Bochum, the left collective bookstore, in Overbergstrasse near the university. After moving to Frankfurt , Weinrich worked for the Roter Stern publishing house . At the publishing house he met Wilfried Böse , with whom he founded the Revolutionary Cells , still working openly in the publishing house . In 1975 they went into hiding , went to a guerrilla training camp of the Palestinian PFLP and shifted the focus of their actions from Germany-specific to international attacks under the leadership of Wadi Haddad .

In the late 1970s, Weinrich joined the group Carlos built and began working as a paid terrorist. He and Carlos accepted money from various secret services , including the Romanian Securitate , and thereby financed a luxurious lifestyle; Muammar al-Gaddafi paid $ 1 million annually.

To date , he is suspected of numerous attacks in France , Greece and elsewhere, which were only partially charged, including:

Processes

Weinrich was arrested in Yemen on June 4, 1995 and flown to Germany immediately afterwards. On January 17, 2000, after a four-year trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for an attack on the Maison de France cultural center on August 25, 1983 with one dead and 23 injured, whereby the gravity of the guilt was determined. 25 kilograms of explosives had destroyed the top two floors and a 26-year-old left-wing protester who wanted to hand over a protest resolution against France in the consulate was killed. 23 people were injured. Former Stasi Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Voigt , at that time head of the department XXII (counter-terrorism of the Stasi ), was sentenced to four years in prison for complicity in this stop (to murder). The Syrian diplomat Nabil Chretah , at that time an employee of the Syrian embassy in East Berlin, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for aiding and abetting murder by the same jury as Weinrich on January 17, 2000, the execution of which was suspended.

Weinrich had to appear before the Berlin Regional Court from spring 2003 onwards because of a six-fold murder charge in connection with three bomb attacks in France in 1982 and 1983 , until he was acquitted in August 2004 for lack of evidence. An extradition requested by the French judiciary because of the December 1983 attacks was rejected as inadmissible by the Berlin Superior Court in December 2009 . In December 2011, Weinrich was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in the criminal trial that began in Paris in November 2011 against the co-defendants “Carlos” Illich Ramírez Sánchez, Christa Fröhlich and Ali Kamal al-Issawi.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Oliver Schröm: The Jackal's Assistant. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 23, 2004, accessed on February 10, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Kerstin Gehrke: The terrorist from the salon. tagesspiegel.de, March 7, 2003, accessed February 10, 2014
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Gast: A trace of terror through Europe, in: taz.de of March 5, 2003, accessed on October 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Jörn Hasselmann: In the service of the jackal. tagesspiegel.de, August 25, 2008, accessed February 10, 2014
  5. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/11-jahre-nach-dem-terroranschlag-auf-maison-de-france-erhaelt-ex-mfs-offizier-voigt-vier-jahre-haft-- -and-is-released-stasi-and-carlos-in-the-fight-against-the-class-enemy-, 10810590,8825386.html
  6. ↑ Terrorist Weinrich: acquitted and yet in custody, in: Süddeutsche.de of August 25, 2004, accessed on July 16, 2014
  7. ^ Extradition of terrorist Weinrich rejected. in: morgenpost.de of December 22, 2009, accessed on July 16, 2014
  8. ↑ Notorious terrorist: "Carlos" has to go to prison for life, in: Spiegel Online from December 16, 2011, accessed on August 11, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Weinrich, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the revolutionary cells
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Brakel