Carlos the Jackal to face trial in France

Carlos the Jackal to face trial in France

Such officials are not authorized to speak to the media about such matters.

Ramirez, 57, is serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informer. He gained international notoriety as the Cold War-era mastermind of deadly bombings, killings and hostage dramas.

After years on the run, Ramirez was captured in Sudan in 1994 and hauled in a sack to Paris by French secret service agents. He was convicted three years later for the 1975 murders.

Last year, Bruguiere wrapped up 20 years of investigations into Ramirez' possible role in the 1980s attacks last year.

The date of the trial has not been set. The judicial official provided no other details about the trial or Ramirez' suspect role in the attacks.

One bomb hit a train from Paris to Toulouse in southwestern France in March 1982, killing five people and another exploded in front of the Paris offices of the Arab newspaper Al Watan in April 1982. An explosion at a Marseille train station in December 1983 killed two people and the fourth attack hit a TGV high-speed train the same day, killing three people.

He is also suspected in the 1976 Palestinian hijacking of a French jetliner in flight to Entebbe, Uganda. Ramirez has testified that he led a 1975 attack that killed three people at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Ramirez has remained vocal from behind bars, and was convicted for saying in a 2004 TV interview that terror attacks are sometimes "legal." A Paris court later overturned the conviction, ruling that the remarks were taken out of context.