Bring Jackal home, says party

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, otherwise known as 'Carlos the Jackal' pictured in 1979. File photo / Supplied

Venezuela's Communist Party urged the Government yesterday to seek the repatriation of convicted terrorist "Carlos the Jackal", who is serving a life sentence in France for murder.

Party representative Pedro Eusse said President Hugo Chavez's Administration should ask France to let Ramirez serve the remainder of his sentence in his homeland.

The Venezuelan-born prisoner, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is not getting adequate health care in France and authorities there are denying his right to communicate with lawyers, Eusse charged.