Head of Guadeloupe Terrorist Group, 4 Others Captured
A convicted terrorist leader whose organization was blamed for at least eight deaths on the French island of Guadeloupe has been captured after a two-year search, police said.
Luc Reinette, 27, was captured Tuesday along with three other men and a woman in this former British Caribbean island and flown to Guadeloupe, a French overseas department about 200 miles north.
The five, members of the Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance, are all French citizens who advocate Guadeloupe’s independence from France, police said. Reinette and two of the men captured, Raymond Bernard and Marie Joseph Rex, were listed among Guadeloupe’s most wanted criminals.
Reinette was convicted and sentenced in November, 1984, to 24 years in prison for his part in a series of bombings in Guadeloupe. He had been sought by French authorities since escaping from a Guadeloupe jail in June, 1985.
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