Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (October 12th 1949, Caracas, Venezuela), better known under the name of Carlos or Jackal , was condemned by the French Justice to the life imprisonment for terrorist acts and currently held to the Prison of Clairvaux. It is especially known for different the Attentat S which it carried out in Europe and for its gift to remain in clandestinity.

Biography

He is the son of a communist rich person lawyer Venezuelan, Ilich being the patronym of Lénine. He entered the clandestine life at fourteen years, in Venezuela. A little later it followed a drive of revolutionary war to Cuba.

A person in charge of the KGB detected it among the recruits, which opened the doors to him, in 1968, of the Université Patrice-Lumumba with Moscow, an establishment intended to form the elites of the Third world. He there perfect his drive, but is made expel this one in 1970 because of his immoderate taste for alcohol and the women.

He then takes his name of war, Carlos , and becomes member of the Liberation popular front of Palestine - external Operations. In December of the year 1975, it organizes and directs the sequestration of 11 ministers of OPEC to the Vienna, probably most impressive taken hostages of all the history of modern terrorism.

It converts with the Islam in 1975. Four years, pursued later a little everywhere, it settles with Beirut. Following the defeat of the Palestinians in 1982, it leaves it. A little later it is announced to the Yemen of the south, in Libya and Syria. In 1991, it is released by its guards and finds refuge with the Sudan.

One year later, for the murder of three police officers of the DST occurred on June 27th, 1975, a French court condemns it to detention with perpetuity by Contumace.

The August 14th 1994 with Khartoum, the DST, directed then by the prefect Philippe Avoiding, manages to make it remove on order of Charles Pasqua then Minister of Interior Department, without mandate of extradition, then to bring back it towards France, where it is now held with perpetuity. It would have met with more than twenty recoveries in Damas Jacques Vergès (see the testimony of Carlos him even by telephone in the film " the Lawyer of terror " as well as the information of the Stasi). The prison leads it to meet the judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere very near to the future President of the association of S.O.S attacks, and the lawyers Jacques Vergès and Isabelle Costing-Peyre, which he will marry.

It published a Autobiographie in 2004.

See too

In the trilogy " Bourne" of Robert Ludlum ( The Bourne Identity (Memory in the skin), The Bourne Supremacy (Death in the skin), The Bourne Ultimatum (Revenge in the skin) ), the enemy of the main character names Carlos and Ilich Ramirez Sanchez and is described like " the largest terrorist of all temps".

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