Carlos the Jackal, once one of the world’s most-wanted militants, will face a fresh trial for a 1974 grenade attack in Paris that killed two people and injured 34, sources close to the investigation have said, reports The Guardian.
The 64-year-old Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, has been in prison in France since 1994 after he was arrested in Sudan. He was transferred to France where he was wanted over a series of attacks and murders.
In 1997, he received his first life sentence for the murder of a civilian and two policemen more than two decades earlier.
In 2011, Ramírez was found guilty of masterminding attacks on two French passenger trains in 1982 and 1983, a train station in Marseille and a Libyan magazine office in Paris. He was given another life sentence for his role in the attacks that left 11 people dead and nearly 150 injured.
Read more of this report from The Guardian.