Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Encyclopedia
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is a French
lawyer
engaged to Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the international terrorist better known as "Carlos" (his nom de guerre) or "Carlos the Jackal".
She represented Zacarias Moussaoui
early during his imprisonment while awaiting trial for his role in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
She was married to a civil servant
and has three sons, Florent, Gabriel, and Aurelien.
She became a lawyer and worked with Jacques Vergès
, defender of Djamila Bouhired
; she supports her defence of "revolutionary fighters" with income derived from her activities as a business lawyer.
In her political cases, she employs "rupture" techniques, treating the trials as lynchings. She was briefly jailed for likening French police
to the Gestapo
.
Her fiancé Carlos is currently held in Clairvaux Prison
, where he is part of the general inmate population, and their attempts to marry have been frustrated by legal issues. Conjugal visit
s can only be made after a civil marriage occurs; a Muslim ceremony performed in 2001 (when Carlos was married to his second wife, and Isabelle was married to her first husband) had no legal force. She believes Carlos is innocent of all his alleged crimes in Paris.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
engaged to Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the international terrorist better known as "Carlos" (his nom de guerre) or "Carlos the Jackal".
She represented Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen who was convicted of conspiring to kill citizens of the US as part of the September 11 attacks...
early during his imprisonment while awaiting trial for his role in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
She was married to a civil servant
Civil service
The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....
and has three sons, Florent, Gabriel, and Aurelien.
She became a lawyer and worked with Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès, born 5 March 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Siam , is a French-Vietnamese lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila...
, defender of Djamila Bouhired
Djamila Bouhired
Djamila Bouhired is an Algerian revolutionary.Bouhired is a nationalist who opposed French colonial rule of Algeria. Djamila Bouhired was raised in a middle-class family, she went to a French school and joined the Algerian National Liberation Front while a student activist. Later, she worked as a...
; she supports her defence of "revolutionary fighters" with income derived from her activities as a business lawyer.
In her political cases, she employs "rupture" techniques, treating the trials as lynchings. She was briefly jailed for likening French police
French National Police
The National Police , formerly the Sûreté Nationale, is one of two national police forces and the main civil law enforcement agency of France, with primary jurisdiction in cities and large towns. The other main agency is the military Gendarmerie, with primary jurisdiction in smaller towns and rural...
to the Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
.
Her fiancé Carlos is currently held in Clairvaux Prison
Clairvaux Prison
Clairvaux Prison is a high-security prison in France, on the site of the former Clairvaux Abbey.-1971 revolt:In this prison in 1971, convicts Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems took Nicole Comte, a nurse, and Guy Girardot, a prison guard, hostage, and Buffet subsequently murdered them. Buffet and...
, where he is part of the general inmate population, and their attempts to marry have been frustrated by legal issues. Conjugal visit
Conjugal visit
A conjugal visit is a scheduled extended visit during which an inmate of a prison is permitted to spend several hours or days in private, usually with a legal spouse...
s can only be made after a civil marriage occurs; a Muslim ceremony performed in 2001 (when Carlos was married to his second wife, and Isabelle was married to her first husband) had no legal force. She believes Carlos is innocent of all his alleged crimes in Paris.