We have all heard ot the “Jackal”, maybe we read the novel; Day of the Jackal. Maybe we have seen the movie. The Jackal I am writing about is a real person.
He was born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez in Venezuela. His first name is a tribute to Lenin, for many people in those days, were very fascinated with the Russian Revolution. Ilich was Lenin’s middle name.
This Jackal claims to be a “professional revolutionary”. He became the head of special operations for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was more a ‘gun’ or ‘bomb’ for hire, and the violence in the middle east was attractive to him.
The nickname, “Carlos the Jackal” was given him by the press. This referred to the fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal. This was also made into a movie.
After some years of violence, murders, bombings, he was finally arrested in 1994 in Khartoum, the Capital of Sudan. He had been on the run for many years. His ability to evade capture had made him famous.
This ‘Carlos the Jackal’ was sentenced to and is serving a life sentence for murdering two policemen in Paris in 1975. He was also charged for killing a Lebanese revolutionary. On top of these murders, he was charged with four bombings in Paris and Marseille in 1982 and 1983. He was also charged for damaging trains, which killed 11 people and injured nearly 150.
He has been in prison for quite sometime. Now he is sixty seven years old, and ‘accused’ of a grenade attack on a busy shop in the heart of Paris in September 1974. This bombing is linked to the hostage-taking at the French embassy in the Hague, in the Netherlands, that had begun two days before.
Ramirez, The Jackal, admitted to throwing the grenade. He wanted to force the French government to give in to the demands of the communist militant group; the Japanese Red Army. They were demanding the release of one of its members who had been arrested in Paris two months earlier.
The particular terrorist he wanted released and sent to Yemen actually was.
The interesting fact is that these terrorist attacks which are so current, actually began back in the 1970s.
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I don't understand, but was he released already or was still in jail? If he was a heinous criminal then why did they release him again.
Now, he is on the loose and has made that bombing again.
Imagine he is now 67 and has been jailed for quite sometime, yet he still hasn't changed. He is still a terrorist.
I wonder if he is really a human being.
He is in jail; this 'new' charge has come up. And they want to charge him again. But he is in jail.