The 'patriarch' of terrorists to justice

paris - He had almost forgotten, Carlos the Jackal, the man who in the seventies and eighties death and destruction sowed by his attacks. Only his nicknames Carlos and Carlos the Jackal (Jackal), invariably evoke horrific memories. Although he is serving a life sentence in France, brings the prosecutor him still before the courts because of an attack in 1974.

The now 67-year-old terrorist is, according to French media accused on September 15 that year to have thrown a grenade in a Parisian store, which two people died and 34 others were injured.

The Jackal was arrested in Sudan in 1994 and convicted in Paris for the murder of two police officers and four deadly bombings in Paris and Marseilles in 1982 and 1983. He became internationally known through a hostage at the headquarters in Vienna of OPEC, in 1975.

Venezuelan terrorist called himself a leftist guerrilla fighter, who took part for the first time in 1973 to a- unsuccessful- liquidation. His nickname the Jackal he received from journalists on the occasion of the book The Day of the Jackal, the author Frederick Forsyth.