The BBC reports that the
imprisoned terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal (so named because the French
police found a copy of Frederick Forsyth’s classic thriller Day of the Jackal
in his abandoned apartment) was again sentenced to life in prison
Carlos the Jackal, a
notorious Venezuelan militant serving two life sentences, has been handed a
third by a French court.
The self-styled
revolutionary, whose real name is Iliac Ramirez Sanchez and is now 67, was
convicted of a 1974 grenade attack on a Paris shop.
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 1975.
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".
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You can also read an earlier
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