and Toulouse, killing five passengers and injuring thirty others. Responsibility for the bombing was later claimed on Carlos's behalf by a group calling themselves Terrorist International which was a front for the Basque ETA group that Carlos had hired to bomb the train in exchange for weapons. The bomb, which was carried in a small suitcase, had been placed in the VIP section of the train. A later inquiry revealed that Paris Mayor and former President Jacques Chirac should have been on the train at the time but had changed his plans at the last moment. On April 5, the Red Army Faction sent another letter to The Hague on Carlos's behalf threatening additional violence if Kopp and Breguet were not released. When the demands were not met by April 15, Guy Cavallo, a French embassy employee stationed in Beirut was gunned down when he answered a knock at the door. His wife, who was seven months pregnant at the time, was also killed in the attack. While the authorities described the man as a lowly employee of the embassy, he was in reality an SDECE agent. This fact, together with the information concerning Chirac's travel plans, indicated that Carlos had a very well developed intelligence network. Rue Marbeuf aftermath (Follain)On April 21, another bomb exploded outside the French embassy in Vienna, killing an Austrian policeman who was guarding the building. At 9.02am on April 22, as Kopp and Breguet were led into court, a massive car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Rue Marbeuf. Above the restaurant were the offices of Al Watan al Arabi. By the time the smoke had cleared, one woman was dead, ten people were seriously injured while fifty-eight others escaped with minor injuries. The same afternoon Magdelana Kopp was sentenced to four years in prison while Breguet was given five years. Within hours of the verdict, Deffere announced the expulsion of two Syrian diplomats and explained to the media that the expulsio...
