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theim said:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4647514.stm
Now don't tell me any of you are actually suprised at the notion of the EU going out of its way to make a mass-murderer comfy-cozy. I just found it noteworthy.
So where is he now?theim said:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4647514.stm
Now don't tell me any of you are actually suprised at the notion of the EU going out of its way to make a mass-murderer comfy-cozy. I just found it noteworthy.
bbc article said:He claims his rights were violated by being held in solitary confinement for eight years from 1994 until 2002.
A lower chamber of the court ruled last year that the treatment did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
It said special measures had been needed to detain a man once regarded as the most dangerous terrorist in the world.
Carlos, a 56-year-old Venezuelan, gained international notoriety as a mastermind of deadly bombings, assassinations and hostage-takings.
The Marxist-Leninist radical, 62, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving a life sentence in France for the murder of two French policemen and an informant in 1975. Carlos, born in 1949, rose to prominence in 1975 when his commando group burst into the conference room where ministers from the OPEC oil cartel were meeting in Vienna, taking 11 of them hostage.
He is now on trial for 1982 and 1983 attacks billed as part of a private war Carlos waged against France to free two comrades, including his future wife, who were arrested in Paris while planning to attack the Kuwaiti embassy. The first bombing on March 29, 1982, aboard the Le Capitole express train running from Paris to the southern city of Toulouse, killed five people and wounded 28.
The attack was followed by another on April 22, 1982: The car bombing in Paris of the anti-Syrian newspaper Al-Watan Al-Arabi that killed a passerby and wounded 60. The trial, ordered by controversial anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, will be presided over by judge Laurent Olivier and is set to last until Dec. 16.
Carlos the Jackal returns to court in Paris today - Taipei Times
Self-styled revolutionary "Carlos the Jackal" has been convicted in France of organising four deadly attacks in the 1980s and sentenced to life in prison. Carlos, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving life in a Paris prison for a triple murder in 1975. He has denied any role in the bomb attacks in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people. The 62-year-old was captured by French special forces in Sudan in 1994. By that time he had earned global notoriety as a mastermind of deadly bomb attacks, assassinations and hostage-takings.
It was the discovery of fresh evidence that led to him being tried for the bomb attacks in Paris and Marseilles that also left more than 140 people injured. During his trial, Ramirez described himself as a "man of combat" and a "professional revolutionary". In his five-hour closing statement on Thursday, he said: "I am a living archive. Most of the people of my level are dead." He also read a text in memory of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is known to have funded anti-Western attacks.
Deadly bombings
The first bombing, in March 1982, was on a train between Paris and Toulouse, killing five people and wounding 28. It was followed a month later by the car bombing of an anti-Syrian newspaper in Paris. One passer-by was killed and 60 injured. The other two bombings took place on New Year's Eve 1983, with a bomb on a TGV fast train between Marseille and Paris that killed three people and wounded 13, and a bomb at a Marseille train station that killed two. Ramirez was born into a wealthy Venezuelan family, and studied in Moscow before joining the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He converted to Islam in 1975. He got his nickname after a copy of Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal was found among his belongings.
BBC News - Carlos the Jackal convicted for 1980s French attacks
Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan man behind a series of attacks in France in the 1970s and 80s, is on trial again over a deadly shopping centre attack. He is already serving two life terms for several killings in the name of Palestinian and communist causes. Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was given his nickname when he was one of the world's most wanted terror suspects. He spent years on the run before being captured in 1994 in Sudan.
The self-styled revolutionary (right) was one of the world's most notorious terrorists
What is the case?
Ramirez, 67, will appear before three judges in a Paris court on Monday over a hand grenade attack on a shopping centre in the French capital's Latin Quarter in September 1974. Two people were killed and 34 others were injured in the attack. Ramirez has pleaded not guilty and his lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, said the trial was a waste of time and money. "What exactly is the point of having a trial so long after the events?" she said. But Georges Holleaux, a lawyer representing the victims, said the families relished the chance to see him in court. "The victims have been waiting so long for Ramirez to be judged and convicted. Their wounds have never healed," he said. In a newspaper interview which he later disavowed, Ramirez allegedly said he had carried out the attack in a bid to persuade France to release a Japanese communist militant.
This is the third time Ramirez has been taken to trial in France
Who is Carlos the Jackal?
Ramirez was dubbed Carlos the Jackal by the press, named after the fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal, which was turned into a popular film. Born in Venezuela, he was considered one of the most notorious political terrorists of the 1970s and 80s. By the age of 24, he had joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and began his training as a militant revolutionary. A few years later, he launched his first attack - on Joseph Edward Sieff, the then president of the Marks and Spencers retail chain in London. Sieff, a prominent Jewish figure, survived a gunshot wound to the head.
Ramirez became a leading figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The self-professed "professional revolutionary" has since been found guilty of four bomb attacks in Paris and Marseille in 1982 and 1983, which killed 11 people and injured 150. He was first convicted by a French court 20 years ago, and again in 2011 and 2013. If convicted of first degree murder charges, he could get a third life sentence. Ramirez was arrested in the Sudanese capital in 1994 by elite French police, 20 years after the first attack for which he was accused.
What are the attacks Ramirez was involved in?[/URL]
Ramirez Sanchez, 67, was once one of the world's most-wanted terror suspects for carrying out several killings in the name of Palestinian and communist causes, including a bombing on a train traveling between Paris and Toulouse in 1982 that killed five people. He is already serving two life terms. While in court, Ramirez Sanchez complained of blatant "manipulations of justice" and alleged the investigation into the attack was sabotaged. Ramirez Sanchez and his lawyers criticized the lack of a jury; his conviction was ruled by a five-judge panel on Tuesday.
When his latest trial began in March, Ramirez Sanchez, who converted to Islam in 1975, said the killings he carried out were in the name of "the revolution" and he condemned "scavenging" lawyers and "Zionist interests" of working against him. "No one has executed more people than me in the Palestinian resistance," Ramirez Sanchez said. "I am the only survivor. In all the fighting, there were collateral victims. It's unfortunate."
Convicted Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal. He received his third life sentence on Tuesday, this time for throwing a grenade in a Paris shopping center in 1974, a five French judges ruled
Prior to his latest conviction, Ramirez Sanchez said he would appeal if convicted. He has 10 days to appeal, French network BFMTV reported. In the latest trial, prosecutors accused Ramirez Sanchez of throwing a hand grenade into a shopping center in Paris' Latin Quarter in September 1974, killing two people and injuring 34. He pleaded not guilty, though he once said he carried out the attack to persuade France to release a Japanese communist militant in a newspaper interview he later disavowed.
Ramirez Sanchez, who the media dubbed Carlos the Jackal after the fictional terrorist in Frederick Forsyth's 1971 The Day of the Jackal novel, was arrested in 1994 by French police in Sudan about 20 years after the first attack he was accused of carrying out.
'Carlos the Jackal' given third life sentence over 1974 Paris bombing
Hey....if he claims conversion to Islam, they may even apologize to him and let him out.BBC NEWS | Europe | Jackal appeal over solitary term
Now don't tell me any of you are actually suprised at the notion of the EU going out of its way to make a mass-murderer comfy-cozy. I just found it noteworthy.
The self-declared “professional revolutionary,” whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has spent close to quarter of a century behind bars in France since he was captured and spirited out of Sudan by French special forces in 1994. He had already lost previous legal fights against two other convictions that also earned him life sentences, and this was his third and last appeal, although he had not been expected to succeed.
The latest trial was related to Carlos the Jackal’s conviction last year for an attack in 1974 on a shop on Paris’s Champs Elysee, the Drugstore Publicis, that killed two people and injured 36 others. The court in Paris confirmed his life sentence after the case was heard by a special jury made up of professional magistrates. It ruled that all of the evidence from the investigation showed that he was “the individual who had thrown that grenade.”
Now 68, Carlos the Jackal, who was born in Venezuela, is already serving two other life terms. One is for the murder of two French police officers and an informant in June 1975 and the other for attacks on trains, a railway station and a Paris street in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and wounded about 150 others. The nickname was given to him by the media after a reporter saw a copy of Frederick Forsyth’s “The Day of the Jackal” at Ramirez’s London flat. One of his two lawyers was his wife, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who married him after meeting him as defence attorney.
Carlos the Jackal loses bid to fight last of three life sentences
