Jacques Myslin (1936,12,28-1979, 1 1 02), whose surname is even more misunderstood as Meislin. He is a famous criminal in France, and he also lived briefly in the United States and Canada.
Early events
Jacques mesrine Merlin was born in Clichy, a suburb of Paris, and studied at Julius College, a famous local Catholic school. But he was fired for excessive behavior. He had a short marriage in 1955- 1956, and then he served in the French military uniform in the dispute over the translation of Algerian war names. And returned to France on 1959.
Merlin was first arrested in 1962 because he and three other associates tried to rob a bank. Before that, he was a professional criminal with many years of experience. Sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment 18 months, 1963 released. Later, I found a job in an architectural design company, but I was fired because of the layoffs of the company 1964. Then he returned to his criminal career.
Merlin was arrested in a villa in Palma, Mallorca. He was sentenced to six months in prison. Later, he claimed that the Spanish government admitted that he had worked in direction de la surveillance du territoire.
[Edit this paragraph] Canary Islands, Canada, Venezuela
1966, Merlin opened a restaurant in the Canary Islands (an archipelago of seven volcanic islands off the northwest coast of Africa), but later robbed a hotel in Chamonix in 1967+065438+ 10. 1February, 968, he and his mistress flew to Canada to be private drivers for a short time. After the attempted kidnapping, he flew to America, but was arrested in Arkansas and extradited to Canada.
Merlin was sentenced to ten years in prison for cheating, but in 1972, he and five other prisoners successfully escaped from prison. After that, he started robbing banks in Montreal. In his own way, he robbed two banks on the same day-he had an accomplice named Jean-Paul massl. On September 3 of the same year, their plan to help three other prisoners who had been held in the same prison escape failed. A week later, they murdered two rangers. At the end of the year, they moved to Venezuela with two mistresses. Massl then returned to Canada.
[Edit this paragraph] Return to France as "Public Enemy Number One"
Public Enemy No.11At the end of 972, Merlin returned to France to continue robbing banks. 1in March, 973, shortly after his arrest, he absconded on the way to the court for trial and took the judge hostage. Four months later, he was arrested again in his new apartment in Paris. While serving his sentence in Sander Prison, he wrote an autobiography-like book, L'Instinct de Mort, and sent someone to smuggle him out of the prison. 1978 on may 8, he escaped from prison with three other prisoners, although one of the three prisoners was killed by the police. This prison break became a criminal scandal in France.
Merlin broke into houses, robbed jewelry stores and banks, kidnapped and smuggled guns. He also killed many people, including an uncooperative male client. He boasted that he had committed 39 murders. He is good at camouflage, so he got the title of "Thousand Thieves". It is alleged that the French right-wing terrorist organization, the Secret Army Organization (OAS), helped him to make fake identity documents.
On June 2 1979, Merlin kidnapped millionaire Henry Le Pouvret and obtained a ransom of 6 million francs. Merlin thus became "public enemy number one in France".
Some media once regarded him as a "romantic villain". He even interviewed the media, trying to explain that his kidnapping and robbery were politically motivated. He was so concerned about his public reputation that he almost killed French journalist Jacques Tillier because he didn't like the comments in his article. Thillier used to be a police officer at the Department of Homeland Security. At this time, he is writing an article for the extreme right-wing newspaper One Minute.
The French Ministry of the Interior was fed up and forced the police to jointly arrest Merlin. 1979165438+1October 2, when the police found his residence, they immediately took action. In Porte de Clignancourt, a suburb of Paris, before the truck carrying several armed policemen overtook Merlin's BMW, several police gunmen fired 19 bullets, which went straight through the windshield. The French police announced the victory of the operation and were congratulated by French President Valery Tisca D 'Estaing. Later, the police station was accused of not warning Merlin at that time, and the police station did not take self-defense, which shows that Merlin was assassinated by the police. This theory was confirmed by Lv Xian Aimee-Blanc, director of the French Central Anti-Banditry Office (OCRB), and Jean-Michel Calad, a French journalist, in the book Chasing.