French court convicts 14 in 2015 Charlie Hebdo, Jewish market attacks
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Police cordon off the area around the offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper in Paris, France, following a terrorist shooting attack on January 7, 2015. File Photo by Maya Vidon-White/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 16 (UPI) A French court on Wednesday found 14 people guilty of participating in the 2015 terrorist attacks at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
Eleven of the 14 defendants were present at the Special Assize Court of Paris when the guilty verdicts were announced by a panel of judges, ending a trial that lasted for more than three months.
In this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, an injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris, France. 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.
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PARIS The fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman and a man described as his logistician on Wednesday were convicted of terrorism charges in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 attacks in Paris against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket.
First published on Wed 16 Dec 2020 11.24 EST
A court in France has convicted 14 people in relation to the January 2015 terror attacks in Paris on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket.
A total of 17 people were murdered across three days in a series of attacks that horrified the nation. All three assailants were killed in shootouts with the police, leaving only accomplices to face trial.
The defendants were found guilty on different charges, ranging from membership of a criminal network to complicity in the attacks. Terrorism-related charges were dropped for several of the defendants who were found guilty of lesser crimes.
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A Paris court on Wednesday handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping Islamist gunmen who massacred cartoonists at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and customers at a Jewish supermarket in January 2015.
Lawyers for the victims and activists hailed the verdict
that they said was a victory for justice and freedom of speech after a
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)