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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 a verdict that they said was a victory for justice and freedom of speech after a sometimes traumatic three-month trial that had revived the horror of the killings.
The attacks followed the publication by Charlie Hebdo of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed which had caused anger across the Muslim world.
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People hold candles declaring I am Charlie during a vigil to commemorate the victims of Paris terror attacks, Jan. 2015. Je suis Charlie is a slogan adopted by supporters of freedom of speech after the Jan. 7, 2015 shooting in which 12 people were killed at the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Credit:
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After a three-month trial, a fugitive widow of an ISIS gunman and a man described as his logistician were convicted of terrorism charges on Wednesday in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 attacks in Paris against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket.
30-year jail terms for suspected accomplices of terrorists in 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks
Terrorists killed 17 people during the attacks on the offices of a magazine and a Jewish supermarket. By AFP Wednesday 16 Dec 2020, 5:34 PM Dec 16th 2020, 5:01 PM 8,777 Views 15 Comments
A police officier guards the courtroom at the Paris Hall of Justice today
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Updated Dec 16th 2020, 5:34 PM
A FRENCH COURT has handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to 13 accomplices convicted of helping Islamist gunmen who massacred cartoonists at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and customers at a Jewish supermarket in early 2015.
Ali Riza Polat, accused by prosecutors of being a right-hand man of one of the attackers, was convicted of complicity in terror crimes by the court and given a 30-year sente
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Republican guards stand outside the Hyper Cacher supermarket ahead of a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the deadly attack against the store in Paris on January 5, 2017. (AFP/Christophe Archambault)
PARIS, France (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 January 7-9, 2015 attacks in Paris, which left 17 dead along with the three gunmen who claimed the killings in the name of al-Qaeda 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
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