Posted on 03/13/2017 4:59:16 PM PDT by SJackson
PARIS — Once the world's most-wanted fugitive, the political terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal appeared in a French court Monday over a deadly 1974 attack at a Paris shopping arcade.
The Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is accused of throwing a hand grenade from a mezzanine restaurant into a shopping area in the the Latin Quarter of Paris. Two people were killed and 34 injured.
The 67-year-old is already serving a life sentence in France for a series of murders and attacks he has been convicted of perpetrating or organizing in the country on behalf of the Palestinian cause in the 1970s and 1980s.
If convicted of first-degree murders in the latest trial, the Marxist guerrilla who became a symbol of Cold War anti-imperialism could get a third life sentence.
As the trial opened Monday, Carlos denounced it as a "gross manipulation of justice" 42 years after the attack. He has denied involvement and pleaded innocent.
Asked to state his profession before the court, he called himself a "professional revolutionary," and said "I'm doing fine" in prison — after more than 20 years behind bars.
At the time of the attack, Ramirez Sanchez had not yet been dubbed "Carlos the Jackal." He was 24 years old and already had joined the organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmea_Odeh
Rasmea Yousef Odeh (born 1947/1948; also known as Rasmea Yousef, Rasmieh Steve, and Rasmieh Joseph Steve)[2][3] is a Palestinian woman and former United States citizen. She served as associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, Illinois.[4][5][6][7]
Odeh was convicted in 1970 by an Israeli military court of involvement in fatal terrorist bombings, and in 2014 by a US federal jury of immigration fraud. She was sentenced to life in prison in Israel for her involvement in two terrorist bombings in Jerusalem in 1969, one of which killed two people, and involvement in an illegal organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She spent 10 years in prison before she was released in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP in 1980.[8]
“I’m proud of the path of Osama bin Laden,” snickered Ilich Ramírez Sánchez from a French prison in 2002. Ramirez is also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” and was also known in the 1970s as “The World’s Most Wanted Terrorist.” “Bin Laden has followed a trail I myself blazed,” he continued in an interview from a French prison. “I followed news of the September 11 attacks on the United States non-stop from the beginning. I can’t describe that wonderful feeling of relief.”
Ramirez received much of his terror-training in Castro’s Cuba. In keeping with that fine tradition, Cuba has long hosted base facilities for Iran’s Hezbollah and was probably laundering funds for Al-Qaeda as late as two years ago.
Say what you want but the French caught him. He killed two French counter-intelligence agents and the French went after him. The French can be vindictive and nasty.
You are correct, was referring to the trial after all these years, not the counter terrorists.
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