Carlos the Jackal to stand trial over Paris grenade attack

Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan who became a symbol of Cold War terrorism, is facing a new trial.

A French court has ordered Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, to stand trial over a 1974 grenade attack on Paris’s Left Bank that killed two people and injured more than 30.

He is serving two life sentences for other deadly attacks in the 1970s and 1980s. Authorities have linked him to bombings, hijackings and other attacks.

An association of victims’ families released the indictment. They have fought for years to see Ramirez Sanchez tried for the 1974 attack.

He was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and was affiliated with extreme-left European terror groups before being seized by French agents in 1994. – (PA)