The French and U.S. intelligence agencies offered a number of deals to the Sudanese authorities. The deal may have come through because the Islamic fundamentalists in Sudan were angered by Carlos's playboy attitude. In 1994, Carlos was scheduled to undergo a minor testicular operation in a hospital in Sudan. As soon as he was sedated for the procedure, French Law Enforcement Agents burst into the operating room and seized him. On August 14, 1994 he was handed over to French agents of the DST and they flew him to Paris. He was charged with the Paris murders of the two policemen and PFLP guerrilla-turned-Israeli spy Michel Moukharbal in 1975 and sent to La Santé de Paris prison to await trial.
The trial began on December 12, 1997 and ended on December 23, at which time he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He is known to have had a sporadic correspondence with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías from his prison cell. President Chávez replied, with a letter in which he addresses Carlos as "distinguished compatriot". On June 1st 2006, the president Hugo Chávez referred to him as his "friend" during a meeting of OPEC countries held in Caracas..
In June 2003, Ramírez Sánchez published a collection of writings from his jail cell. The book, whose title translates to Revolutionary Islam, seeks to explain and defend violence in terms of class conflict. In the book, he voices support for Osama bin Laden and his attacks on the United States. He also supports Saddam Hussein for resisting against USA, calling him "Last Arabic Knight".
Ramírez Sánchez is, as of 2004, engaged to his lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre.
In 2005, the European Court of Human Rights heard a complaint from Sánchez that his long years of solitary confinement constitute "inhuman and degrading treatment." Although the Court rejected this claim, it was on appeal as of early 2006. Sánchez is currently held in Clairvaux Prison, where he is part of the general inmate population.
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