In truth, the Secretary General could have offered a myriad of other cases. The Seventies serial killer Charles “the Serpent” Sobhraj, who is in life imprisonment in Nepal; Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan terrorist currently serving a life sentence in France; the arrest of 53 human traffickers in Ethiopia and Uganda last year (which also entailed the recovery of 12 elephant tusks, the seizure of a cache of illegal weapons, and the arrest of a heroin smuggler); Interpol played a significant part in all of these arrests. And Noble has led from the front. These days, his working hours are so long that he has an apartment in the building.