Carlos the Jackal gets third life sentence for 1974 Paris attack
Paris — A French court sent Carlos the Jackal, once one of the world’s most wanted criminals, back to jail for his third life sentence on Tuesday after convicting him of a grenade attack 42 years ago on a Paris shop that killed two people. The Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez-Sanchez, is already serving two life sentences in France for deadly attacks in the 1970s and 1980s. The 67-year-old Ramirez, in a final statement before the judges announced their verdict, denounced the trial as "absurd" and said he was being tried on phoney evidence. His lawyers had urged the special Paris court to acquit him, but the court found him guilty and handed down the life sentenced requested by prosecutors. Ramirez was charged with murder over the September 15 1974 grenade attack on the Publicis drugstore in central Paris, which also injured 34 people. He denied involvement in the attack. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Marxist militant and self-dubbed "elite gunman" became a symbol of Cold W...
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