 For his part, Ramírez Sánchez denied the 1975 French killings, saying they were orchestrated by Mossad, the Israeli secret service, and condemned Israel as a terrorist state.During his trial in France in 1997, he said, "When one wages war for 30 years, there is a lot of blood spilled—mine and others.But we never killed anyone for money, but for a cause—the liberation of Palestine."