Pierre Carette
Pierre Carette (born 21 September 1952 in
Life and work
Pierre Carette became politically active when establishing a committee striving for the release of captured members of the
The CCC-members were brought to trial in 1988. In October 1988, Carette was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment,[2] mainly because of an attack on the building of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises (VBO) in Brussels on 1 May 1985, when two Firefighters were killed in spite of a warning.[3]
On 23 February 2003, Carette was the last CCC-member to be released from prison. In October 2002, he had given an interview to journalists of the
Pierre Carette was arrested again on 5 June 2008, after police arrested a number of Belgians with ties to the Political-Military Communist Party, which had been plotting terror attacks in Italy. Some of those arrested had been CCC-members,[5] and it was found that he had re-established contact with them, which had been prohibited by his parole conditions.[6] However, as his parole conditions had been modified to allow him to have contact with his CCC associates in a peaceful context, and the police had not bugged his telephone calls with Bertrand Sassoye, there was no way to prove that his contact with Sassoye had been other than peaceful.[7]
Footnotes
- ^ Metdepenningen, Marc (June 19, 2008). "L'ex-chef des CCC, qui a respecté sa libération conditionnelle, est libre". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ "Engelen des doods; CCC-kopstukken blikken terug op hun aanslagen; documentaire". De Standaard. 25 March 2004. (in Dutch)
- ^ a b "CCC'er Carette blijft zijn politieke idealen trouw; CCC is niet meer, maar ik strijd voort". De Standaard. 26 February 2003. (in Dutch)
- ^ "Confrontatie Carette-Martens". De Standaard. 20 September 2003. (in Dutch)
- ^ "Four terror suspects remain in custody". flandersnews.be. 6 June 2008. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012.
- ^ "Two former Belgium terrorists nabbed". UPI.com. 6 June 2008.
- ^ "Pierre Carette libéré ce soir". RTL.be (in French). 18 June 2008.