Jacques Mesrine

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Jaques Mesrine: The infamous french criminal known as "the man of 1,000 faces."

John Dillinger: Depression-era Indianapolis' most fear criminal.

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History
Jacques Rene Mesrine was born in Clichy-la-Garenne near Paris on 28 December 1936. He studied at the prestigious Catholic school Collège de Juilly, but was expelled for his aggressive behavior. He married Lydia De Zouza in Clichy in 1955, and the couple divorced a year later. After serving with the French Army during the Algerian War, Mesrine returned to France in 1959. He married Maria De La Soledad in 1961 in Paris.

Mesrine was arrested for the first time in 1962 when, with three accomplices, he attempted to rob a bank in Neubourg. By that time he had been a professional criminal for a number of years. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was released in 1963. He got a job in an architectural design company but was let go following a downsizing in 1964, and he returned to a life of crime.

In December 1965, Mesrine was arrested in the villa of the military governor in Palma de Majorca. He was sentenced to six months in jail and later claimed that Spanish authorities believed he was working for French intelligence.

In 1966, Mesrine opened a restaurant in the Canary Islands. In December of the same year, he robbed a jewelery store in Geneva and a hotel in Chamonix. The following year, Mesrine robbed a fashion store in Paris.

In February 1968, he fled to Québec with his mistress Jeanne Schneider and worked briefly as a cook and chauffeur for grocery and textile millionaire Georges Deslauriers. On June 26 1969, after unsuccessfully attempting to kidnap Deslauriers, Mesrine and Schneider fled to the US. On June 30, Evelyne Le Bouthillier, an elderly lady who may have given them refuge, was found strangled. A couple of weeks later, on July 16, the pair were arrested in Arkansas and extradited back to Québec.

Mesrine was sentenced to ten years in prison for the bungled kidnapping but escaped a few weeks later, only to be reapprehended the next day. Mesrine and Schneider were acquitted of the murder of Bouthillier in 1971. Mesrine escaped again on August 21 1972 with five others from the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul prison. With accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier, a wanted French-Canadian murderer, Mesrine robbed a series of banks in Montreal, sometimes two in the same day. On September 3, they failed in an attempt to help three others escape from the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul prison but remained at large. A week later, they murdered two forest rangers. They continued robbing banks in Montreal, and even snuck into the US again for a brief stay at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. At the end of 1972 they moved to Caracas, Venezuela.

By the end of 1972, Mesrine had returned to France where he resumed robbing banks. In March 1973, he was arrested but, taking a judge hostage, he fled during sentencing, using a revolver hidden in the courthouse by an accomplice. Four months later, he was arrested again in his new Paris apartment. On 18 May 1977, Mesrine received a 20 year sentence and was sent to La Santé maximum security prison, where he wrote L'Instinct de Mort ("The Death Instinct")[1] [2], an incomplete but detailed autobiography. Mesrine had the book smuggled out of La Santé Prison and published. Almost a year later, on 8 May 1978, he escaped with three other convicts, although the police shot one of them. The escape became a scandal in France, as weapons had been smuggled into the prison, apparently by the guards.[3]

Mesrine traveled to Sicily, Algeria, London and Brussels, and back to Paris in November 1978, where he attempted to kidnap a judge, but failed.

On 21 June 1979, Mesrine kidnapped millionaire real estate mogul Henri Lelièvre and received a ransom of six million francs. Mesrine had become "French Public Enemy Number One" (L'Ennemi Public Numéro Un).

Some of the press seem to have regarded him as a romantic rogue at the time. He even gave press interviews where he tried to convince people that his kidnapping and robberies were politically motivated. He was very concerned about his own publicity—he almost killed French journalist Jacques Tillier (a former Directorate of Territorial Security policeman who wrote articles for the far-right newspaper Minute) because he did not like Tillier's articles about him.

In August 1979, the French Minister of the Interior had had enough and forced police departments to unify their efforts to track Mesrine down. The police eventually ascertained his whereabouts on October 31. Three days later, on November 2, he left his apartment with his girlfriend. At Porte de Clignancourt, on the outskirts of Paris, a truck loaded with armed policemen veered in front of his BMW and police sharpshooters shot 19 rounds through the windshield, killing Mesrine and seriously injuring his girlfriend.

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