Carlos the Jackal Fast Facts

Carlos the Jackal, once the world’s most wanted terrorist, has appeared in a French court and launched an appeal against one of his life sentences by declaring: “I am a professional revolutionary; revolution is my job.”

Described in the past as a “ladies’ man and cold-blooded killer”, now a strangely avuncular-looking 68-year-old, Carlos raised his right fist in revolutionary salute as he entered the dock of a specially constituted French appeal court, and blew a kiss towards the journalists on the press bench.

June 29, 2025 | 5:48 pm