The aging, twice-married but still romantically inclined terrorist mastermind Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, plans to marry his French lawyer, the bride-to-be said Friday.
"It's a marriage of love and of compatibility of ideas," said Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who continued to represent the Venezuelan-born revolutionary when half a dozen other lawyers had given him up as a lost cause.
"Between the image of him that is presented and the reality of what he is, there is a big difference," she said. "He is far more conformist than I."
The marriage is expected to take place at La Sante prison in Paris, where Carlos, 51, is serving a life sentence for the murder of two French secret service agents and a suspected informer in 1975.
Carlos remains under investigation for a number of attacks committed in France in the 1970s. He makes regular appearances in court -- usually sporting a silk cravat -- where he gives his profession as "revolutionary in the Leninist tradition" and denounces his prosecutors as "illegitimate servants of world Zionism" who are aiming to "Mcdonald's-ize humanity."
He is believed to be responsible for about 80 killings in the name of the Palestinian struggle and other revolutionary causes during the 1970s and 1980s. Carlos was finally captured in 1994 by French agents in Sudan.
In the 1980s he married Magdalena Kopp, a German who was linked for nearly 20 years to the Revolutionary Cells terrorist group and suspected of aiding him in several attacks.
Coutant-Peyre said she expected to be married to Carlos by early next year "at the latest," but refused to describe the planned ceremony beyond saying: "It won't be done in a classic way."
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