ns were not linked to the Marbeuf bombing but were in relation to previous spying offences. Several weeks later a grenade was fired at an accommodation block of the French Consulate building in Beirut but no injuries were reported. Two weeks later, a large bomb exploded inside the French Embassy grounds in Beirut killing eleven and wounding twenty-seven. In June, Christa-Margot Froelich, the woman who had carried the letter of demand to The Hague and was suspected of driving the car containing the bomb to Rue Marbeuf, was arrested at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome. Froelich was travelling under a false German passport and was carrying a suitcase that contained over three kilos of explosive, detonators and an alarm clock. She was later convicted and sentenced to six years. In a later incident, a group of gunmen supposedly sent by another terrorist, Abu Nidal, attacked the patrons of Jo Goldberg's restaurant in a Jewish neighbourhood in the heart of Paris. After throwing a grenade through the window, the gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons killing four and wounding another thirty, many of them seriously. While Carlos was not directly linked with the Goldberg attack, the SDECE believed that it was carried out on his behalf. Over the ensuing months Carlos considered many other plans to secure the release of his wife and her accomplice but none came to fruition and the pair were left to languish in jail. In the wake of the latest attack, President Mitterrand expressed a lack of faith in the existing anti-terrorist organisations and called for the formation of a new counter-terrorism unit reporting directly to him. The man that Mitterrand selected to head the new unit was the former head of the Elite French Paramilitary police, Colonel Christian Prouteau; his brief was to "conduct missions of coordination, intelligence and action against terrorism." His appointment caused disruption in the established police and intelligen...
