He and five others demanded a plane and flew with a number of hostages to Libya. He was ultimately captured by extra-judicial means in Sudan and transferred to France, where he was convicted of multiple crimes. He is currently serving three life sentences in France. In his first trial, he was convicted of the murder of an informant for the French government and two French counterintelligence agents.
According to the BBC, it was "a notorious hotbed for recruiting foreign communists to the Soviet Union" see active measures. On graduating, he studied at a finishing school, code-named H4 and staffed by Iraqi military, near the Syria-Iraq border. After the organisation was pushed out of Jordan, he returned to Beirut. He was sent to be trained by Wadie Haddad. He claimed to be the grenade thrower at a Parisian restaurant in an attack that killed two and injured 30 as part of the French Embassy attack in The Hague.
He later participated in two failed rocket propelled grenade attacks on El Al airplanes at Orly Airport near Paris on 13 and 17 January The second attack resulted in gunfighting with police at the airport and a seventeen-hour hostage situation involving hundreds of riot police and the French Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski. Paraguayan authorities would then have handed over the information to France. The team took more than 60 hostages and killed three: an Austrian policeman, an Iraqi OPEC employee, and a member of the Libyan delegation.
On 22 December, the government provided the PFLP and 42 hostages an airplane and flew them to Algiers , as demanded for the hostages' release. The last hostages were freed there and some of the terrorists were granted asylum. The source of the money is also uncertain but, according to Klein, it was from "an Arab president". Manuel Contreras , Gerhard Mertins , Sergio Arredondo and an unidentified Brazilian general traveled to Tehran in to offer a collaboration with the Shah regime to kill Carlos in exchange for a large sum of money.
It is not known what actually happened in the meetings. He chose to settle in Aden , where he tried to found his own Organization of Armed Struggle, composed of Syrian, Lebanese and German rebels. He also connected with the Stasi , East Germany 's secret police. The car was found to contain explosives. After their arrest, a letter was sent to the French embassy in The Hague demanding their immediate release. Meanwhile, Carlos unsuccessfully lobbied the French government for their release.
