Paris - Once the world's most hunted man, the guerrilla mastermind Carlos "the Jackal (48) finally faces a Paris court tomorrow for the 1975 killing of two French secret agents and their Lebanese informer. The trial will be the first official public appearance of the Venezuelan, who eluded the West's secret services for two decades to leave a trail of terror across Europe, the Middle East and Japan.
France's DST counter-espionage agency, seeking to avenge the killing of its two members, kept up the hunt for 19 years before catching up with him in Sudan in 1994 and sending him off to France bound in a sack. Since then Carlos, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, has languished in solitary confinement in high-security prisons.