.png)
Carlos the Jackal convicted for 1980s terrorist attacks in France
A French court convicts the Venezuelan-born terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal for organising four deadly attacks in France in the 1980s and sentences him to life in prison.
Carlos the Jackel is already serving a life sentence in a French prison.
Carlos the Jackel,62, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving a life sentence in a French prison.
The Marxist revolutionary has denied any role in the bomb attacks in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people. The 62-year-old was captured by French Special Forces in Sudan in 1994.
In Thursday's verdict, the French court found Carlos the Jackal guilty of being the mastermind behind four attacks in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and injured more than 140 others.
Carlos the Jackal earned global notoriety as a mastermind of deadly bomb attacks, assassinations and kidnapping. He sowed fear across western European and Middle Eastern countries during the cold war, and was believed to have links to hijackings and bombings for far-left and Palestinian terror groups.
The Jackal was born into a wealthy Venezuelan family, and studied in Moscow before joining the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. His father, a Marxist lawyer, named his son after Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and his two younger sons were named Lenin and Vladimir.
Carlos converted to Islam in 1975. He got his nickname after a copy of Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal was found among his belongings.
