Carlos the Jackal: Blood on the Streets of Paris
On a sunny Sunday in 1974, a grenade exploded in a crowded Paris drugstore, killing two and wounding dozens. The man behind it—and a trail of bombings, shootings, and terror across France—was Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal.
In this episode, Alexander Lawson traces the Venezuelan revolutionary’s deadly campaign on French soil: the Drugstore Publicis attack, the Rue Toullier murders of two police officers, the train bombings of the 1980s, and the decades-long pursuit that finally brought him to justice. Multiple life sentences later, the Jackal remains behind bars in…
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