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Sacks of Lire. Then, carefully following the kidnapers' instructions, Chase, in a rented car, headed south on the autostrada toward Naples. Just after passing Lagonegro, south of Naples, members of the gang pulled up alongside in a Citroën and pelted Chase's car with pebbles while the men inside rubbed their fingers together as a signal for money. Chase got the message and pulled over to the side. While he was handing over the sacks of lire, a car driven by a Rome detective with a pretty blonde policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending...
Speeding through the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart early one evening in August 1962, the French President's black Citroën ran into a barrage of submachine-gun fire. The colonel riding next to the chauffeur yelled to his father-in-law in the back seat: "Father, get down!" The tall, imperial figure budged not an inch. Again the distraught colonel pleaded: "I beg you, Father, get down." This time the President leaned slightly forward. A split second later, a stream of bullets ripped through the limousine. When the firing stopped, Charles de Gaulle flicked fragments...
Brezhnev's principal relaxations are hunting and cars. He is occasionally seen driving his Citroën-Maserati sports car (a gift from Pompidou) or his Cadillac Eldorado (given him by Nixon...
...that, "Cruyffie" earns 350,000 guilders a year through business investments and plugs for products ranging from Citroën cars to Bols gin (which he enjoys drinking laced with Coke...
Leroy's fate was sealed, it seemed, when a Bruay youth named Jean-Pierre, who was with the group that had originally discovered Brigitte's body, testified that he had seen a bald, corpulent man behind the wheel of a white Citroën near the empty lot at the hour of the crime. When it turned out that Leroy, who is partially bald and stocky, owned a white Peugeot, Jean-Pierre decided that the Citroën really was a Peugeot after...