Thursday, 17 Dec 2020 07:35 AM MYT
Charlie Hebdo s lawyer Richard Malka talks to the press at the Paris courthouse, December 16, 2020, after the sentencing hearing in the trial of 14 people suspected of being accomplices in the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher jihadist killings. AFP pic
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PARIS, Dec 17 A Paris court yesterday handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping Islamist gunmen who attacked satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo and customers at a Jewish supermarket in January 2015.
Survivors and family members of the dead sat in silence as the verdicts were read out, which they hailed afterwards as a victory for justice and freedom of speech after a sometimes traumatic trial that revived the horror of the killings.