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Ramírez Sánchez, son of Marxist lawyer José Altagracia Ramírez Navas and Elba María Sánchez, was born in Michelena, in the Venezuelan state of Táchira. [12] Despite his mother's pleas to give their firstborn child a Christian first name, José called him Ilyich, after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, while two younger siblings were named "Lenin" (born 1951) and "Vladimir" (born 1958). [13]
Carlos, also known as Carlos the Jackal, [2] is a 2010 French-German biographical film and television miniseries about the life of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, nicknamed Carlos the Jackal, covering his first series of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994.
Carlos led his team past two Austrian police officers in the building's lobby and up to the first floor, where a police officer, an Iraqi plainclothes security guard and a young Libyan economist, Yusuf al-Azmarly, were shot dead. As Carlos entered the conference room and fired shots into the ceiling, the delegates ducked under the table.
On 13 and 19 January 1975, El Al aircraft at Paris-Orly Airport, France were subject to attempted RPG attacks by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists led by Carlos the Jackal. While the intended attacks failed, collateral damage was suffered and the second attack resulted in gunfighting and a seventeen-hour hostage ...
Revolutionary Islam (French L'islam révolutionnaire, ISBN 978-2-268-04433-0) is a book written by international revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, under the direction of Jean-Michel Vernochet. It was published in 2003 by the Éditions du Rocher.
Kopp and Carlos then decided to separate and she went to Venezuela with his mother while Carlos traveled to Sudan with a diplomatic passport. In Venezuela , she lived in Valencia for a few months until the Venezuelan press found out about her and then made ample references to her past, due to her association with Carlos.
Her fiancé, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal", is held at Clairvaux Prison, part of the general inmate population, and their attempts to marry were frustrated by legal issues. Conjugal visits can only be made after a civil marriage occurs; a Muslim ceremony performed in 2001 (when Carlos was married to his second wife and ...
His portrayal of Carlos the Jackal in the 2010 biopic television miniseries Carlos won him the César Award for Most Promising Actor, [3] [4] and nominations for a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Actor. [5] He then played a CIA operative in the film Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and boxer Roberto Durán in the biographical sports film Hands of ...