Early life Weinrich attended the
University of Frankfurt, where he was a radical student leader and owned a bookstore. He was friends with fellow radical
Wilfried Böse.
Career Weinrich is thought to have managed operations for "Carlos" —
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — in Europe during the 1970s and '80s. He was imprisoned for providing the cars used in the attack, but was released on probation for health reasons eight months into his sentence and became a fugitive. In the late 1970s he introduced Carlos to
Magdalena Kopp, at the time Weinrich's girlfriend, whom Carlos would marry in 1979.
Extradition and conviction On 1 June 1995, Weinrich was arrested in
Yemen and extradited to
Germany. At the time he was carrying a Somali passport identifying him as John Saleh. He faced trial for the 1975 rocket-propelled grenade attacks on
El Al flights, 1981 bombing of
Radio Free Europe in Munich, 1983 attack on the Saudi Ambassador to
Greece, and the bombing of the
French cultural centre in West Berlin the same year. He was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to
life imprisonment. ==In popular culture==