Rendition of Carlos the Jackal from Khartoum

He drinks and goes out with women so much …

“We welcomed him as a combatant, someone who fought for the Palestinian cause, for noble causes.  Now he’s a hoodlum, his behaviour is shameful.  He drinks and goes out with women so much that I don’t know if he’s a Moslem.  Given that his presence has become a real danger we are going to hand him over.  We have no regrets.  Because of his behaviour, we are absolved from blame.”
Sheik Hassan al-Turabi

At approximately 3am, he was woken by a group of men pinning him to the bed.  Before he could resist, he was handcuffed hand and foot and had a thin hood pulled over his head.  A doctor then stepped forward and injected him in the thigh with a hypodermic containing a tranquilliser.  A stretcher was produced and Carlos was bundled unceremoniously into a van that drove him to Khartoum airport where an executive jet was standing by.

By the time the jet had cleared Sudanese airspace, Carlos realised that his captors were French, what he did not know was that he was in the hands of the DST.  He was then placed in a sack and bound tightly, with only his hooded head protruding. Six-and-a half hours later, the jet landed at Villacoublay military airport outside Paris where he was handed over to another DST team and driven to their Paris headquarters.  

As soon as he was unloaded and taken inside the building, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere issued Carlos with a national arrest warrant for the murder of two DST agents at Rue Toullier in 1979.  By issuing such a warrant, the French government avoided the cumbersome process of applying to Interpol for an extradition order.  

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Convicting Carlos the Jackal was one of
Bruguiere's most significant successes