Terrorist Ilich Ramírez, often known as Carlos the Jackal, is on trial again Monday for allegedly carrying out four bomb attacks in France in 1982 and 1983. The bomb attacks killed 11 people and wounded 100, according to the BBC.

The first bombing took place on a train between Paris and Toulouse. The attack killed five people and wounded 28 in March 1982. A month later there was a car bombing of an anti-Syrian newspaper in Paris which killed one person and injured 60.

The other two bombings took place New Year’s Eve 1983. A bomb on a train between Marseille and Paris killed three people and wounded 13. A bomb at a Marseille train station killed two, the BBC reported.

Prosecutors told The Daily Beast that Sánchez carried out the attacks to pressure authorities to release two of his accomplices.

Sánchez was captured by French Special Forces in Sudan in 1994. He is perhaps best known for leading a raid in Vienna in 1975. In the raid, his group took 11 ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hostage, according to the BBC.

Sánchez is already serving a life sentence in jail for killing two policemen and a Lebanese informant in 1975. He faces another life sentence for the new charges.

France does not have a death penalty, according to Fox News.

The trial is expected to last six weeks, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Sánchez got his nickname, Carlos the Jackal, after a copy of "The Day of the Jackal" was found in his belongings, according to the BBC.

While in prison, Sánchez married Isabelle Coutant-Peyre in an Islamic ceremony. She was his lawyer in his original trial and will defend him again in this trial.

 

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