Carlos the Jackal Fast Facts

Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is appealing against his conviction for a 1974 grenade attack on the Publicis Drugstore shopping mall in Paris’ Left Bank area, in which two people died and 34 were wounded.

He received a life sentence for the crime after a 2017 trial in which he again declared himself a “professional revolutionary”, and told the five professional judges deciding on his guilt or innocence: “No one has executed more people than me in the Palestinian resistance.”

June 29, 2025 | 5:48 pm