1.Jacques Mesrine
Jacques Mesrine (December 28, 1936 -November 2, 1979) was a french criminal who was also briefly active in the US and Canada.Mesrine committed burglaries, jewelry 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.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).
The French Minister of 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.fterwards 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.
2.Octave Garnier
Octave Garnier (December 25, 1889 - May 14, 1912) was a french anarchist and founding member of the infamous Bonnot Gang.
On May 14, 1912 Garnier and René Valet were killed in a shootout with French authorities when their safe house in Nogent-sur-Marne was raided by police. Armed with seven 9 mm Browning semi-automatics and two long-barreled Mausers, the two outlaws, who had barricaded themselves inside the rental house, faced 50 detectives, 250 police from Paris, Republican Guards, and 400 Zouaves from Nogent. As the six hour stand-off stretched on, Valet and Garnier burned 10,000 stolen francs but managed to hold back the army outside.
At midnight, having failed to remove the bandits, French authorities succeeded in positioning one and a half kilograms of melanite in the house. The resulting explosion rendered the structure's inhabitants unconscious and Garnier was then executed by a 9 mm shot to the right temple. Both men were buried in unmarked graves.
3.Khaled Kelkal
Khaled Kelkal (April 28, 1971 – September 29, 1995) was a French terrorist of Algerian origin affiliated with the GIA. He was involved in several gunfights and was one of the men behind the islamist bombing campaign in France in 1995.
On 29th of September 1995, after several days of chasing in the forest of Malval, in hills near Lyon, Khaled Kelkal was found in a place called "La Maison Blanche". He attempted to resist arrest and was shot dead by the gendarmes of EPIGN.
Kelkal's death was shown on television, and a polemic arose about the exact reasons for the shooting. On the television footage, as the gendarmes get close to the body of Kelkal, one of them can be heard yelling "Finis-le, finis-le !" ("Finish him, Finish him !"). However, it seems that even though he was shot in the leg, Kelkal had aimed a pistol at the gendarmes, who opened fire in self-defence.
4.Jules Bonnot
Jules Bonnot (October 14, 1876 - April 28, 1912) was a French illegalist famous for his involvement in the criminal anarchist organization dubbed "The Bonnot Gang" by the French press. He viewed himself as a professional and avoided bloodshed, preferring to outwit his targets. Often posing as a businessman, his taste in expensive clothing earned him the pseudonym "Le Bourgeois" among comrades.
On April 24, three policemen surprised Bonnot in the apartment of a suspected fence. He shot at the officers, killing Louis Jouin, the vice-chief of the French police (Sûreté Nationale), and wounding another officer before fleeing over the rooftops. Part of the 100,000 franc reward was later given to the widow of Jouin.
On April 28, police tracked Bonnot (now France's "most wanted" criminal) to a house in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi. They besieged the residence with 500 armed police officers, soldiers, firemen, military engineers and a lynch mob of local citizens. Armed with three Brownings and a Bayard pistol, Bonnot succeeded in wounding three police officers.
By noon, after sporadic firing failed to extract Bonnot from the house, Paris Police Chief Louis Lépine ordered the building bombed, using a dynamite charge. The explosion demolished the front of the building. Barely conscious, lying underneath a mattress, Bonnot was shot ten times in the upper-body before Lépine shot him non-fatally in the head. Afterwards police had to prevent the spectators from lynching Bonnot. They simply told the crowd that Bonnot was already dead and had been buried in a secret grave.
Bonnot was moved to the Hotel-Dieu and pronounced dead at 1:15 PM. He was buried in an unmarked grave and police refused to release his last will and testament.
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