Carlos the Jackal life sentence confirmed

By Ingrid Melander
Updated September 24 2021 - 4:10am, first published 4:08am
Carlos the Jackal had been seeking a sentence reduction over a grenade attack in Paris in 1974.
Carlos the Jackal had been seeking a sentence reduction over a grenade attack in Paris in 1974.

Carlos the Jackal, the leftist militant who carried out attacks across the globe in the 1970s and 1980s, has had the life sentence he had been given for a deadly grenade attack on a Paris shop in 1974 confirmed, the Paris Prosecutor's Office says.

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