German terrorist acquitted of additional charges

German terrorist Johannes Weinrich was acquitted on Monday of additional charges of conducting bombings in France in the early 1980s.

Weinrich, 57, is serving a life sentence for a Berlin bombing organized by the left-wing extremist Kingpin Ilich Ramirez Sanchez Carlos, who is serving a life term in a French prison.

Carlos unsettled the world in the 1970s and 1980s with unpredictable terrorist attacks. Weinrich is believed to be a key lieutenant of Carlos.

Berlin state court said evidence had been inadequate to prove Weinrich's role in the French bombings in the 1980s.

He has been charged of co-plotting three bombings that took place in central Paris, Marseilles' main railway station and on a TGV high-speed train.

But the court made no change to his previous sentence. Weinrich was handed down life sentence in 2000 for bombing a French cultural institution in Berlin in 1983.

Source: Xinhua