Carlos the Jackal

Venezuelan-born international terror operative

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a native Venezuelan convicted of terrorist crimes, and currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counterintelligence agents. While in prison he was further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional life term in 2011, and then to a third life term in 2017.

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