Lucien Sarti
Lucien Sarti (* 1931 in Corsica , † April 27, 1972 in Mexico City ) was a French drug courier and hit man of the infamous French Connection heroin network. In the television series " The Men Who Killed Kennedy " he was referred to as one of the snipers who were directly involved in the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 .
Life
The said series critically examined the evidence of the Kennedy assassination and attacked the official account that the murder was carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald alone .
In one of the episodes that aired on the History Channel in 2003 , writer Anthony Summers spoke to French prisoner Christian David, who knew Sarti well and had learned numerous details about the assassination from Sarti himself. David's testimony was corroborated by Michele Nicoli , who also worked as a drug courier and is currently protected by a US Drug Enforcement Administration witness protection program .
Christian David, Lucien Sarti and Michelle Nicoli worked for the heroin dealer Auguste Ricord , a well-known figure in the Marseille underworld . According to statements by Christian David, he was asked in the spring of 1963 by none other than Antoine Guérini , the most powerful Mafia boss in Marseille, whether he might be prepared to kill "a highly placed American politician". When asked who was meant, Guérini replied: "The biggest vegetable", that is, Kennedy. David declined the offer as too dangerous. At a meeting with Sarti in Buenos Aires two years later , David learned that Sarti had taken on the job. The author Stephen Revelle describes Sarti as the shooter who shot Kennedy from the hill known as Grassy Knoll and fired the decisive, fatal headshot. In 1972 Sarti got into a gun battle with the police in Mexico City and was shot dead.
Sarti was first referred to as a member of the heroin mafia in 1980 by the journalist Henrik Krüger.
According to other accounts, mafia killer James Files shot off the hill. He charged himself with the murder of Kennedy in 1994.
literature
- Henrik Krüger: The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism . Boston: South End Press, 1980, ISBN 0-89608-031-5 .
- James Mills: The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace . Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986, ISBN 0-385-17535-3 .
- John H. Davis: American Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy . New York: Signet, 1989, ISBN 0-451-16418-0 .
- Jim Marrs: Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy . New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990, ISBN 0-88184-648-1 .
- Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, ISBN 0-520-07312-6 .
- Claire Sterling: Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0-671-73402-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarti, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | suspected conspirator in the assassination of John F. Kennedy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Corsica |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1972 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |