Ilich Ramirez Sanchez will appeal the third life sentence he received for a 1974 bombing in Paris that killed two people. The political terrorist has used previous court appearances as a personal stage.

Political terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal," on Monday was to appeal the life sentence he received last year for a 1974 Paris bombing, in what will be his last chance in court.

Francis Vuillemin, Sanchez's longtime lawyer along with Isabelle Coutant-Peyre who is now his partner, said Sanchez would be asking for an acquittal.

Venezuelan-born Sanchez, 68, has denied responsibility for the attack at the Publicis Drugstore at Saint-Germain-des-Pres in Paris's Left Bank, which left two dead and 34 injured when a grenade was thrown from the mezzanine restaurant into the crowded gallery below.

The sentence was Sanchez's third life term. He is already serving two life sentences for his role in attacks which left 11 people dead in 1982-83.

He became one of the world's most notorious fugitives in the 1970s and 80s after he carried out a number of pro-Palestinian attacks.

Read more: Deutsche Welle