Carlos the Jackal back in court in France Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the convicted killer known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, returns to court on Monday in a bid to overturn his conviction for masterminding a deadly series of bombings on French soil. Now 63, the Venezuelan was already serving a life sentence for murder when he was convicted two years ago of orchestrating the 1982 and 1983 attacks on two French passenger trains, a train station in Marseille and a Libyan magazine office in Paris. File images