Life
Mesrine buildup in a middle class family. It was already referred in recent years by two schools because of aggressive behavior. 1955 he married could in the next year again be however already separated, in order to pull into the Algeria war, from which it returned 1959. he married 1961 again. From this marriage three children followed.
1962 were for the first time arrested Mesrine after a tried bank robbery with three accomplices. After 18-monatiger detention it became 1963 from the prison to dismiss. Its family help it to a managing director place in a hotel, which became soon a slip angle for criminal ones. It lived there together with its loved Jeanne cutter, two of which it was to have killed, their corpses was however not found.
In December 1965 Mesrine in Palma de Mallorca was again arrested, when he tried to steal political documents from the residence of the military governor.
1966 opened a restaurant in Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Mesrine, but in the same year he already attacked a Juwelier in Geneva. In May 1967 it opened a hotel in In the November of the same yearly it was recognized during an armed armed robbery on a hotel in Chamonix, in December with a cutter in Paris. In February 1968 Mesrine of the police escaped and fled with Jeanne cutter after Quebec. The search for it thereupon adjusted.
Mesrine and cutters behaved first calmly and worked 1969 five months for the billionaire Georges Deslauriers. After it dismisses it had, they kidnapped it in June, extorted from its son Marcel 200,000 US Dollar and set off illegaly into the USA. One seized it in Arkansas and delivered her to Canada, where they were condemned to ten years prison.
With five cell comrades Mesrine 1972 the outbreak from the prison succeeded. It began two together with his accomplice Jean Paul Mercier to attack Banken in sometimes on one day. In the same year the two failed to three further criminal ones from the same prison with the attempt, in which they had been arrested to help to the escape. Later they killed one week two Forstbeamte. Against end of the yearly they set off first to Venezuela. Mercier returned later to Canada, Mesrine against it immediately to France.
There it attacked further banks. In March 1973 Mesrine was arrested, could flee however during the court hearing, by taking a judge as a hostage. Four months later it was arrested again, this time in its dwelling in Paris.
While its prison stay wrote Mesrine 1977 its autobiography L'instinct de Mort (dt. the death impulse), in whom it admits itself openly to 39 crimes. At the same time it prangerte on the prison conditions in the security wings. Still in the same year the parliament issued the so-called "Loi Mesrine": it may not make anybody more profit with the publication of its crimes.
In May 1977 he was condemned to 20 years of heavy penintentiary, which he should serve in the prison "La in Paris. To 8. May 1978 succeeded to Mesrine with two other prisoner the outbreak from the prison, whereby the police shot a third accomplice on the escape. This outbreak provided in France for a scandal.
Mesrine continued the old business: Assault, robbery, kidnapping, murder. Its lining fate helped it again and again to extract itself from the authorities. It is also maintained that the French right-wing extremist group of OAS supplied it with wrong papers.
On 21 June 1979 Mesrine kidnapped the millionaire Henri and extorted six million franc. Thus it became the public enemy number one ("ennemi public un").
The French press partly clarified it to a romantic Spitzbuben. Mesrine gave even interviews, in which he tried to convince the public of a political motivation of his acting. It was in addition much in its own public interests. It murdered almost the French journalist Jaques Tillier, because its articles did not please it over it. Jacques Mesrine became more and more the living legend. A criminal did not zollte the French public more respect.
The French ministry of the Interior had now enough and requested the police to concentrate their efforts toward the arrest from Mesrine to. After one had determined its dwelling, the police stopped on 2 November 1979 its BMW with a truck, from which snipers with 19 shots killed it by the windshield. The police rate its enterprise as large success, but it be also voice, which deplore, that the police under any circumstances in self-defence act have and that Mesrine of it without warning "execute" be.
Jaques Mesrine became time of its life again and again in different high safety prisons like among other things. "La Sante" (with Paris) or evenly Fleury accommodated. As described already above, Mesrine fled several times (by passengers) even from these aligning strengthened in the French population the legend around Mesrine still additionally.
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