Carlos the Jackal Fast Facts

On that occasion he gave his home address as “my mother’s place in Venezuela” – despite the fact he was already in jail serving two life sentences for murdering two French police officers in 1975 and for masterminding four bombings in in France that killed 11 and wounded nearly 150 in the 1980s.

In 2013 Carlos accepted “political and operational responsibility” for attacks in Europe committed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) between 1970 and 1980, claiming: “It was war. Our comrades were being killed every day … I am a hero of the Palestinian resistance and I am the only survivor from the professional ranks in Europe because I shot first.”

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