Carlos the Jackal’s trial begins in Paris for 40-year-old bombing
Already serving a life sentence, the man who was once the world’s most wanted fugitive is being tried for a bombing that took place 40 years ago
Paris — Carlos the Jackal, once the world’s most wanted fugitive in the 1970s and early 1980s, went on trial in France on Monday for the deadly bombing of a Paris shop more than 40 years ago. The 67-year-old convict cut a grizzled, thinner figure as he was led smiling into a courthouse in Paris, where he is serving a life sentence for other attacks. Ever the sharp dresser with a taste for theatrics, he wore a jacket and a red pocket-square and kissed the hand of his lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who is also his fiancée, before blowing kisses at the media. With attention in France now focused on the jihadist threat after a string of bloody attacks, the trial reaches back to a time when Europe was repeatedly targeted by groups sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Carlos, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, was dubbed "Carlos the Jackal" by the press when he was giving international security services the slip while on the run. The nickname came from a fictional t...
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