The self-styled revolutionary, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been behind bars in France since when French police caught up with him in Sudan after two decades on the run. Carlos, now 71, is serving separate life sentences over the murders of two French policemen and a police informer, as well as for a series of bombings in Paris and Marseille in and that killed 11 people and left dozens injured. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore.
Ramirez threw a grenade into the shopping area, killing two and injuring 34 others, the court found. He denied the charges and called the trial, 43 years later, "absurd". Born into a wealthy Venezuelan family, Ramirez studied in Moscow before joining a militant group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He converted to Islam in When his latest trial began in early March, he said that any killings he had committed had been carried out in the name of "the revolution" and condemned "scavenging" lawyers and "Zionist interests".
In all the fighting, there were collateral victims, it's unfortunate. Prosecutor Remi Crosson du Cormier told the court that "all evidence" gathered in the investigation pointed to Ramirez.
The self-styled revolutionary , whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been behind bars in France since when French police caught up with him in Sudan after two decades on the run. Carlos, now 71, is serving separate life sentences over the murders of two French policemen and a police informer, as well as for a series of bombings in Paris and Marseille in and that killed 11 people and left dozens injured.
Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. An official from state security let him back in with a skeleton key. Daniela Richterova, lecturer and cold war terrorism expert at Brunel University, who has extensively researched the newly available archives, said individuals like Carlos posed a dilemma for many states in eastern Europe.
In and , Carlos orchestrated a bombing campaign in France to force Paris to release his then girlfriend, Magdalena Kopp, jailed for possession of explosives.
But the days of exploiting eastern and central Europe as a base were coming to the end. Within three years, almost all states there moved to expel Carlos and his kind or deny them access to their territory.
Carlos fled to Damascus, and his trip to Prague with the pregnant Kopp appears to be the last time he visited Europe until French secret services captured him in Khartoum in and brought him, aged 44, to stand trial in Paris. He was found guilty on charges of murder, and jailed for life. This article is more than 1 year old. Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, right, sits next to his lawyer at his trial in Paris in , where he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Photograph: Reuters.
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