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...Marc Rouillan, 34, and Nathalie Menigon, 30, are known as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of French terrorism, because of their brutal five- year reign as leaders of Action Directe. Rouillan is suspected of masterminding the murder of a French general in 1985, while Menigon and the second woman, Joelle Aubron, 27, had been sought for the assassination last November of the president of Renault, France's largest automaker. Action Directe is thought to have been responsible for as many as 80 terrorist attacks since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailing Bonnie And Clyde-BYLN- | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Criminal investigators pieced together a composite description of the two attackers, but the evidence was too vague to provide solid identification. Still, the leads seemed convincing enough for police to distribute nationwide some 80,000 wanted posters with photographs of Nathalie Menigon, 29, and Joelle Aubron, 27, two Action Directe militants. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua urged the nation to "cooperate with the police" in hunting down Besse's murderers, and he offered a 1 million franc ($152,000) reward for information leading to their capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Death At the Doorstep | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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