Photos: Carlos the Jackal, then and now
Self-proclaimed scourge of capitalism Carlos the Jackal is already serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of three people. He is going on trial Monday in a seven-judge special anti-terrorism court, charged with complicity in four bombings in France in the early 1980s that killed 11 people and wounded 140.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as "Carlos The Jackal," is pictured in an undated file photo. Venezuelan-born Carlos, the world's most elusive terrorist, will go on trial in Paris on Dec. 12, 1997, for the 1975 killings of two French counterintelligence agents.AP Photo/French Police
Destroyed cars are seen in the Rue Marbeuf in Paris after a bomb attack in front of the building of the Lebanese journal "Al Watan al Arabi" on April 22, 1982. The attack is ascribed to German terrorist Johannes Weinrich, the former right-hand man of "Carlos the Jackal."Michel Clement/AFP/Getty Images
This a May 1996 photo was sent by Carlos from his prison in Paris, France, to his family in Venezuela. The Polaroid shows Ramirez standing before a cloth backdrop of flowers and trees holding a cigar in his mouth. The inscription at the bottom of the Polaroid reads, "What a delicious Cohiba" and is signed "Ilich."Jose Caruci/AP
Carlos arrives at the Paris courthouse for his appeal against French anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere. Carlos claims Bruguiere "violated the secrecy of the case" when he allegedly spoke to French journalist Philippe Berti of the Figaro-Magazine about the probe he conducted in Romania in 1998, concerning a 1982 bomb attack rue Marbeouf in Paris. He was seeking one symbolic franc (15 US cents) in damages.Jack Guez/AFP