Weinrich attended the University of Frankfurt , where he was a radical student leader and owned a bookstore . Weinrich is thought to have managed operations for " Carlos " — Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — in Europe during the 1970s and '80s . In 1975 Weinrich and Carlos attempted to hit an Israeli airplane at Orly Airport with two RPG-7 rocket launchers . The rockets missed and hit an empty plane and a building instead . 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
attempted to hit an Israeli airplane
1975 Orly Airport attacks
Johannes Weinrich