The prosecution requested life imprisonment on Thursday against Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, said Carlos, 71, retried in Paris for the murderous Drugstore Publicis attack in 1974, only to set the length of his sentence.
The verdict could be rendered as early as Thursday evening.
The "
Jackal
" was sentenced in March 2017 to life imprisonment for this attack which left two dead and 34 injured, a sentence confirmed on appeal a year later.
While maintaining the guilty verdict, the Court of Cassation ordered in November 2019 a new trial for Carlos, on the quantum of the sentence.
At the end of a forty-minute indictment, Advocate General Rémi Crosson du Cormier, who already represented the public prosecutor during the two previous trials, asked the special assize court to again pronounce the "
supreme sanction
" on with regard to Carlos.
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"
Old
", this attack is "
also historic
" because it "
inaugurates a whole series of attacks in Paris and in France which are called" blind "
", underlined the magistrate.
The Drugstore attack took place on September 15, 1974 in Paris, around 5:10 p.m. a grenade thrown by a man from the Drugstore mezzanine restaurant had exploded in the shopping arcade below, at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and the rue de Rennes.
Carlos, armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Without DNA or confession, the Assize Court ruling on appeal validated in March 2018 the prosecution's thesis, according to which this attack was intended to facilitate the release of a Japanese arrested in Orly, a member of the Red Army Japanese, whose commando had also just demanded the release during a hostage-taking at the French Embassy in The Hague.
This movement was close to a branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) of which Carlos had become one of the armed groups in Europe.
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Carlos had been convicted on the basis of a bundle of evidence, including the testimony of a former comrade in arms, Hans Joachim Klein, but also the reconciliation of the grenade used at the Drugstore with those abandoned after the capture. hostages from The Hague.
Incarcerated in France since his arrest in 1994 in Sudan, Carlos has already been sentenced twice to the maximum penalty by French justice, for a triple murder in 1975 in Paris and for four bombings committed in France in 1982 and 1983 ( 11 dead and 191 injured).
