Associate of Carlos the Jackal Convicted
In one of Germany’s last trials of 1980s terrorism suspects, a man who once headed European operations for imprisoned terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Johannes Weinrich planned and helped carry out a 1983 bombing of a French cultural center in then-West Berlin that killed one man and injured 23 other people, a Berlin court ruled after a nearly four-year trial. Weinrich was convicted largely on evidence in secret police files from former communist East Germany.
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