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Carlos the Jackal sentenced to life for 1974 attack on Paris store

Published: 28 Mar 2017 - 04:03 pm | Last Updated: 14 Nov 2021 - 06:27 am
FILE PHOTO: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as

FILE PHOTO: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal", raises his fist as he appears in court in Paris, France November 28, 2000. REUTERS/RTV/Thierry Chiarello/File Photo

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PARIS: A French court sentenced Carlos the Jackal, once one of the world's most wanted criminals, to life imprisonment on Tuesday for a 1974 grenade attack on a Paris shop that killed two people.

The Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving a life sentence in France for deadly attacks in the 1970s and 1980s.
 

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