Carlos the Jackal stands trial over 1974 Paris shop attack

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre (R), French lawyer and wife of Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos, arrives at the Palais de Justice in Paris, before the start of the trial of Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos, for the deadly bombing of a Paris shop. (Photo: Reuters)

Carlos the Jackal, once one of the world's most wanted criminals, was back in a French court on Monday, charged with a grenade attack on a Paris shop more than 40 years ago that killed two people.

The Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been held in France for 23 years since being captured in Khartoum by French special forces and was previously sentenced to life imprisonment for deadly attacks in the 1970s and 1980s.