Bruno Bréguet

Bruno Bréguet (born 29 May 1950) was a Swiss militant, known as the first European arrested and sentenced for pro-Palestinian militant activities. He was an associate of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal". He disappeared in 1995.

Career Israeli mission In 1970 Bréguet, then 19 years old, traveled to Lebanon to join the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Radio Free Europe bombing Richard Cummings writes that Bréguet joined Carlos' group in 1980 and took part in its 1981 bombing of Radio Free Europe headquarters in Munich as his first operation. In August 1996 German prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Bréguet in connection with that attack.

French missions In February 1982 Bréguet and Carlos' wife Magdalena Kopp (fresh from a failed 18 January 1982 mission to destroy the Superphénix nuclear power plant in France) were arrested in an underground parking garage in Paris. When the letter was leaked to the press, the publicity ended in the pair getting lighter prison sentences with the attempted murder charge dropped.

Bréguet and Kopp were both paroled in 1985 and rejoined Carlos in Damascus, Syria.

Disappearance Bréguet was last seen on 12 November 1995 on board the ferry Lato sailing from Italy to Greece.

His family has charged that he was kidnapped by the Greek or French secret service. It has been said in late 1996 that he may have been captured by the French DGSE to be confronted with witnesses and documents, concerning the implication of high regional officials of Nice in arms traffic to Algeria. Bréguet reportedly cooperated with French intelligence and justice.

In 2009, Carlos wrote to newly elected US President Barack Obama alleging that Bréguet had been kidnapped by "CIA agents backed by Nato naval commandos" and asking for information on his current whereabouts.