French High Court Rebuffs Last Appeal of ‘Carlos the Jackal’
France’s highest court Wednesday rejected a final appeal by the man known as “Carlos the Jackal,” who is serving a life sentence for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informer.
Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was convicted in 1997 for the murder of intelligence agents Raymond Dous and Jean Donatini, and of a Lebanese man, Michel Moukharbal, whom Ramirez suspected of being an informer.
The agents were investigating Ramirez’s role in attacks on Israel’s El Al airlines at Paris’ Orly Airport.
The Venezuelan-born Ramirez gained international notoriety as the Cold War-era mastermind of deadly bombings, assassinations and hostage dramas.
He carried out the 1975 seizure of OPEC oil ministers and is suspected of involvement in the 1976 Palestinian hijacking of a French jetliner to Entebbe, Uganda, that ended with an Israeli commando raid.
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