Following a hearing that began on Wednesday, the Paris Special Criminal Court upheld the life sentence for the 1974 attack on the Publicis Drugstore shopping center.
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The 71-year-old terrorist, whose real name is Carlos Ilyich Ramires Sanchez, was arrested in 1994 in Khartoum. He was arrested by French secret service agents backed by the Sudanese government. After his arrest, he was taken to France, where he has been imprisoned ever since.
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“I am a professional revolutionary; the revolution is my job,” Carlos Jackal insisted in the 2018 Court of Appeal in France.
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In 2017, a French court sentenced him to a third life sentence for a 1974 terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Paris, where two people were killed and 34 injured.
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He had previously been sentenced to two life sentences for the killing of two police officers in Paris in 1975 and for the murder of a police informant, as well as the explosions in Paris and Marseilles in 1982 and 1983. Eleven people were killed and dozens injured in the terrorist attacks.
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In 2019, the French Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of Carlos Jackal in a case of a terrorist attack in a shopping mall in Paris, but ordered a new trial to assess the sentence imposed on him. The court stated that he could not be convicted of both possession and use of a grenade, as this meant that he had been convicted twice of the same crime. The trial is scheduled to last three days.
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Carlos Jackal has always denied responsibility for the explosion in a shopping center in Paris.
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No fingerprints or DNA traces were found in the store after the explosion. However, his former companion testified that Carlos was involved in the terrorist attack, which investigators believe was aimed at forcing France to release a Japanese prisoner of war.
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Carlos Šakālis gained international attention when a terrorist group led by him broke into the premises of the OPEC conference in Vienna in 1975, taking 11 ministers hostage. The terrorist attack, in which three people lost their lives, was committed in the name of the Palestinian independence struggle.
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