On August 14, 1994, the terrorist Ilyich Ramirez was captured Sanchez, known as “Carlos the Jackal”. This happens during a special operation of the French secret services.
Swiss left-wing extremist Bruno Breguet was previously recruited by the US intelligence agency to spy on his scandalous boss and contributed to his arrest.
Ilich Ramírez Sanchez received the nickname Carlos after becoming a member of the left-wing extremist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the nickname “Jackal” gives him the press when the book “The Day of the Jackal” is found among his belongings. of Frederick Forsyth.
For years, Carlos the Jackal built his infamy with murders, bombs and extortion, and each time he managed to get away unimpeded, both because of his powerful supporters and because of the blunders in the tactics of the secret services. He was arrested in an operation by the French special forces in Sudan, commanded by the famous anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Brugier.
Carlos Jackal is one of the most famous terrorists of the 1970s and 1980s.
Today he is serving a life sentence in France for the murder of two secret agents and a Lebanese informant.
Ilyich Ramírez Sanchez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1949, a curious fact in his biography is that his father was a staunch communist and in honor of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin named his sons after him - Carlos' other brothers were named accordingly Vladimir and Lenin.
After graduating from high school Ilyich Ramírez Sanchez received a scholarship through the USSR Embassy in Caracas. He went to the Soviet Union to study at the "Patrice Lumumba" People's Friendship University, which was used by the KGB to "recruit foreign communists".
In the early 1970s, he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Jordan and participated in the fighting during Black September. In 1973, he made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Jewish businessman and vice-president of the British Zionist Federation, Joseph Zieff. These actions were in response to the assassination of Mohamed Badia, the leader of the PFLP for Europe in Paris, by Mossad agents. Carlos the Jackal himself admits that he is responsible for a bomb attack in the Hapolim Bank in London, for three car bombs planted in front of newspaper offices in France, for a grenade shooting in a Paris restaurant, in which two were killed and 30 were injured.
In The Hague on June 27, 1974, he assisted the Japanese United Red Army in an operation to kidnap the French ambassador. On January 13 and 17, 1975, participated in two failed attempts to blow up El Al planes with a grenade launcher at Orly Airport, Paris. On June 27, 1975, Carlos Chacala shot dead two French agents in an attempt to arrest him after he was betrayed by Michel Mukharbal, an arrested member of the PFLP. Mukharbal was also shot dead. Carlos flees to Lebanon, where s.g. accepts Islam.