The jackal gained international notoriety during the cold war for staging a string of deadly bombings assassinations and hostage seizures he was linked to the assassination of israeli athletes during the 1972 munich olympics the 1975 seizure of opec ministers in vienna and the 1976 hijacking of an air france jet to uganda 
Ilich ramirez sanchez was captured in sudan by french agents in 1994 he was taken to paris to stand trial for the 1975 murder of two investigators and a lebanese national 
Last year austria tried unsuccessfully to extradite him to stand trial for his alleged role in the raid on the opec meeting 25 years ago