- Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre (born in 1952) is a French
lawyer engaged toIlich Ramírez Sánchez , the international terrorist better known as "Carlos" (his "nom de guerre ") or "Carlos the Jackal".She represented
Zacarias Moussaoui early during his imprisonment while awaiting trial for his alleged role in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.She was married to a civil servant and has three sons, Florent, Gabriel, and Aurelien.
She became a lawyer and worked with
Jacques Vergès , defender ofKlaus Barbie andSlobodan Miloevi ; she supports her defence of "revolutionary fighters" with income derived from her activities as a business lawyer.In her political cases, she employs "rupture" techniques, treating the trials as lynchings. She was briefly jailed for likening French police to the
Gestapo .Her fiancé Carlos is currently held in
Clairvaux Prison , where he is part of the general inmate population, and their attempts to marry have been frustrated by legal issues.Conjugal visit s can only be made after a civil marriage occurs; a Muslim ceremony performed in 2001 (when Carlos was married to his second wife, and Isabelle was married to her first husband) had no legal force.External links
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/24/1079939711526.html Sunday Telegraph on Isabelle's love for Carlos]
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