PARIS (AP) The terrorism trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket ends Wednesday after three months punctuated by new attacks, a wave of coronavirus infections among the defendants, and devastating testimony bearing witness to three days of bloodshed that shook France.
Three of the 14 fled to Syria just ahead of the Jan. 7-9, 2015 attacks in Paris, which left 17 dead along with the three gunmen who claimed the killings in the name of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. The other 11, all men, formed a circle of friends and prison acquaintances who claimed any facilitating they may have done was unwitting or for more run-of-the mill crime like armed robbery: weapons stashed in a zipped duffel that few would admit to opening, vehicles, communications, and a short-term rental apartment scouted as a hideout.
Fugitive widow one of 14 convicted in Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks
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Fugitive widow one of 14 convicted in Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks
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Paris: France’s most wanted woman, Hayat Boumeddiene, the fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman, has been sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison, at the end of a trial of 14 people for the 2015 terror attacks on
Charlie Hebdo newspaper and Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris.
The verdict came a day before another major terror ruling over a botched Amsterdam-Paris train attack in which a Moroccan faces a life sentence for seeking to commit mass murder after concealing an AK-47 automatic rifle and 300 rounds of ammunition.
14 people convicted for helping killers in 2015 Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks By Elaine Cobbe Charlie Hebdo terror trial begins in Paris
Paris Almost six years after the deadly attack on the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and at a Jewish supermarket, 14 people have been convicted by a Paris court for helping the three killers.
During the trial, the court heard how brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi entered the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, and killed 11 people, including eight editorial staffers.
As they fled the scene, the brothers killed a policeman who had been posted on guard outside after the publication received numerous threats related to its publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Muslims believe the prophet s likeness should not be displayed or published and many were offended.
Hayat Boumeddiene sentenced to 30 years over the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack
She is the wife of jihadi gunman Amedy Coulibaly who opened fire at a Jewish supermarket in the wake of the Hebdo attack, killing five
Boumeddiene fled France shortly before the attacks to join ISIS in Syria, and is now thought to be at a prison camp in the north of the country
13 others accused of helping Boumeddiene plot the attacks were also jailed
France s most wanted woman whose husband killed five people as part of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks has been sentenced to 30 years in jail on terrorism charges.
The fugitive widow of a gunman and a man described as his logistician have been convicted of terrorism charges in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 attacks in Paris.
It ends the three-month trial of the 14 people linked to the three days of killings across Paris claimed jointly by so-called Islamic State and al Qaida.
The attacks were launched against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
All three attackers died in police raids.
The widow, Hayat Boumeddiene, fled to Syria and is believed to still be alive.
Police officers work at the scene of the kosher supermarket in Paris after the attack there (Francois Mori/AP)