Carlos the Jackal has been sentenced to life in prison – again – in a Paris trial that ended with him rallying for revolution and weeping for Muammar Gaddafi.

A German court today acquitted a jailed aide of the terrorist Carlos the Jackal of murder in a deadly series of bombings in France in the early 1980s.

Jailed terrorist Carlos the Jackal has refused to provide evidence by video link to the murder trial in Germany of one of his top lieutenants.