Venezuelan native Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos Jackal, was sentenced by a court in France to a third lifetime.
Sanchez was found guilty of having thrown a grenade at a shopping center in the center of Paris in September 1974, killing two people and injuring more than 30 people.
Earlier, Sanchez had already been sentenced to two lifelong terms for organizing the bombings and the murder of two police officers in the 70s in France.
67-year-old Venezuelan native Ilich Ramirez Sanchez gained worldwide fame during the Cold War because of his ties with Palestinian rebels. It is believed that he was behind numerous explosions, kidnappings and murders, as well as hostage-taking around the world.
Carlos Shakala was called one of the most cruel and calculating political terrorists.
A convinced Marxist-Leninist who received his name from his parents in honor of Lenin (his brothers were Vladimir and Lenin), Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez was a member of the Union of Communist Youth of Venezuela, at the age of 14 he participated in the riots in Caracas, then studied in Moscow at the University of Peoples' Friendship.
After deducting from the third year, he left for the Middle East, there he entered into contact with radical Palestinian groups and took courses in the camps of militants.
Calling himself "professional revolutionary" Carlos the Jackal for many years hiding from international justice. He was caught in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, and in 1994 the authorities issued him to France.
According to investigators, in 1975 Sanchez led an attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, where he took in hostage 70 people, including 11 ministers of oil production of the countries of the cartel. Then three people were killed.
Also, the name of Carlos Shakal is associated with the hijacking of an Air France flight to Uganda. Then, in 1976, hostages on board the liner were released by the Israeli special forces. In the course of that operation, the brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is reported by the Air Force.