Carlos the Jackal, the leftist militant who carried out attacks across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s, opened a bid in a French court on Wednesday to reduce the life sentence he had been given for a deadly grenade attack on a Paris shop in 1974.
The self-declared "professional revolutionary", whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been behind bars in France since he was captured and spirited out of Sudan by French special forces in 1994.
The appeal that started on Wednesday will not seek to overturn that conviction but will only concern how many years he should be jailed for, after the country's top court struck down the latest ruling over technicalities and sent it back to the lower court.Ramirez, who was born in Venezuela and is now aged 71, is already serving two other life terms and has lost appeals against them.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Marxist militant, became public enemy number one for Western governments and the world' most wanted man.
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