Mesrine: L’instinct de mort (2008)

很难想象法国男演员中能够找到另外一个去饰演如此迷人的坏蛋：

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France again: “Public Enemy No.1″

At the end of 1972, Mesrine was back in France and robbing banks. In March 1973, he was briefly arrested, but fled during the sentencing in court, taking a judge hostage. Four months later, he was arrested again in his new Paris apartment. When he was locked in La Santé jail, he wrote L’Instinct de Mort (“The Death Instinct”), an autobiography of sorts and had it smuggled out. On May 8, 1978, he escaped with three other convicts, though the police shot one of them. The escape became a scandal in France.

Mesrine committed burglaries, jewellery shop and bank robberies, kidnappings, and arms smuggling. He also killed many people, including uncooperative pimps – he boasted about 39 murders in total. He was good at disguising himself, earning him a nickname of “The Man of a Hundred Faces”. Some claim that the French right-wing terrorist group OAS supplied him with false ID papers.^{[citation needed]}

On June 21, 1979, Mesrine kidnapped millionaire Henri Lelièvre and received a ransom of 6 million francs. Mesrine had become “French Public Enemy Number One” (L’Ennemi Public Numéro Un).

Some of the press seem to have regarded him as a romantic rogue at the time. He even gave press interviews where he tried to convince people that his kidnapping and robberies were politically motivated. He was very concerned about his own publicity – he almost killed French journalist Jacques Tillier because he did not like his articles about him. Tillier was a former Directorate of Territorial Security policeman who wrote articles for the far-right newspaper ‘Minute‘.

The French Minister of the Interior had had enough and forced police departments to unify their efforts to track Mesrine down. On November 2, 1979, they had found out where he lived and made their move. At Porte de Clignancourt, on the outskirts of Paris, a truck loaded with armed policemen veered before his BMW and police sharpshooters shot 19 rounds through the windshield.^{[clarification needed]} French police announced the operation as a success and received congratulations from president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Afterwards there were complaints that Mesrine was not given any warning, that the police did not act in self-defense, and thus that Mesrine was assassinated by the police. This thesis was asserted in a book, La chasse à l’homme, written by the police chief of OCRB, Lucien Aimé-Blanc and the French journalist Jean-Michel Caradec’h.^[1]