Carlos the Jackal, born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, is known for orchestrating high-profile terrorist attacks in the 1970s and ’80s. His major crimes include:
- Helping organize the September 13, 1974, occupation of the French embassy in The Hague, Netherlands; during the negotiations, he allegedly lobbed a grenade into a Paris drugstore, killing two and wounding dozens
- Fatally shooting three people while storming an OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna in 1975 and taking more than 60 people hostage
- Murdering his handler, Michel Moukharbal, as well as two French investigators in 1975
- Leading two failed rocket attacks on El Al airliners at Orly Airport in Paris in 1975
- Orchestrating a series of bombings that killed more than 10 people in France in the early 1980s