Carlos the Jackal sentenced to second life term

A Paris court convicted the Venezuelan-born militant known as Carlos the Jackal on Thursday of organizing four deadly attacks in France in the 1980s and sentenced him to life in prison - again.   

Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving a life sentence in a French prison for a triple murder in 1975.      

France does not have the death penalty.    

Ramirez gained worldwide infamy in December 1975 when he and five others burst into a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), killing three people in the space of four minutes.    

 They held 70 hostages at their mercy, including the 11 OPEC ministers, at the time among the most powerful men in the world.    

Another attack attributed to the Jackal is the bombing of Paris-based Al Watan Al Arabie newspaper in 1982.     

Mug shots of Ramirez, issued by police in their desperation to catch him, proved to be unsuccessful for more than a decade.  

The flamboyant former gun-for-hire and self-proclaimed revolutionary returned to court last month to face charges he instigated four attacks in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and injured more than 140 others.  

The court found him guilty in all four attacks, and sentenced him to life in prison with possibility of parole after 18 years.

AP