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Dec. 17, 2020
PARIS – They had sat opposite each other in Paris’ main courtroom since the trial began in September. In the dock was Ali Riza Polat, charged with aiding and abetting Amédy Coulibaly, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi – the terrorists who attacked the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and Hyper Cacher supermarket, killing 17 people in January 2015. On the other side, in the victims’ families’ section, was Eric Cohen, the father of 22-year-old Yohan Cohen, the first of four men murdered in the kosher store.
Eric Cohen attended every court session, listening to the gruesome description of his son’s death. France’s former anti-terror chief showed CCTV stills in which Coulibaly was seen shooting Yohan, who collapsed into the trolleys.
Accomplice of Paris Jewish supermarket terror attack sentenced to 30 years in prison
During the trial, lawyer Patrick Klugman emphasized that the Islamist hatred of Jews was on display not only at the Hyper Cacher supermarket but during the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
During the trial, lawyer Patrick Klugman expressed concern that the antisemitic element behind the attacks had been absent as a factor in the indictment against the accused.
“Do you know how many times the word ‘’antisemitism’’ appears in the indictment order that comes before your court? How many times this word, which caused the crime in one of its most fundamental aspects, is mentioned in 271 pages? Only once!” the lawyer, who represented the relatives of the four Jews killed by an Islamist terrorist in the kosher supermarket, declared.
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.