In the 70s and 80s, the most fear terrorist was the Jackal. Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series was based on his memory-challenged hero being part of a government operation to kill the Jackal.
Carlos the Jackal, RamÃrez Sánchez, is real – the son of a millionaire lawyer who became one of the world’s most wanted men: a globe-trotting criminal mastermind and self-styled professional revolutionary said to have been responsible for bombings, hijackings and shootings across the world.
A resident of a Paris jail since his capture in Sudan in 1994, RamÃrez is already serving a life sentence for the killings of two French policemen and a suspected informant in 1975.
The 62-year-old’s latest trial starts today for his alleged involvement in four bombings in France which left 11 dead and dozens wounded during the early 1980s.
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