Here is a look at the life of Carlos the Jackal, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.
Children with Magdalena Kopp: Elba Rosa, 1986, with one unnamed mother : one son, with two unnamed mothers : two daughters :
Religion: Converted to Islam in the early 1990s.
His father named him Vladmir IIyich Lenin.
The reports have been financed by both Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi.
He has taken credit for more than 80 murders.
His nickname, given to him by the media, came from a fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal. Early 1970s - Joins the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The December 1973 shootings and wounds Joseph Edward Sieff, the president of the Marks and Spencer retail chain, in Sieff's London home.
January 1975 - Two attempts to launch rocket-propelled grenades at Israeli airliners at Orly Airport in France are unsuccessful.
December 21 -- 29, 1975 -- Takes 60 -- 70 hostages at an OPEC meeting in Vienna. Most of the books are released shortly afterward. A group of 11 hostages and several terrorists leave Austria by plane and make several stops in North Africa. The Saudi Arabian oil minister and the Iranian interior minister were killed by Ramirez after a $50 million ransom was paid.
April 22, 1982 - Masterminds a Paris car bombing that kills one and injures 63.
He has been expelled from Syria in 1993, where he has been living since the early 1980s.
August 14, 1994 - Is captured by French agents in Khartoum, Sudan.
December 23, 1997 - Is convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the killing of two French secret agents and a Lebanese revolutionary in 1975.
March 2007 - Wins an appeal of a 5,000 euro fine levied against him for comments made in a 2004 documentary. He was originally found guilty of defending terrorism for saying, In a legal war, we are authorized to take life if necessary. The Appeals Court rules that his comments were taken out of context.
In May 2007, French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere orders Ramirez to stand trial for bombings that occurred in 1982 and 1983 in France. Eleven people were killed and more than 100 were injured in the attacks.
December 15, 2011 - Found guilty of killing 11 people in the 1980, he is sentenced to another life term in prison.
October 7, 2014 - It is announced that Ramirez will stand trial for a 1974 grenade attack in Paris, which killed two and injured 34.
March 28, 2017 - Receives a third life sentence for the attack in Paris in 1974.