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Another defendant was Ali Riza Polat, described as the lieutenant of the anti-Semitic market attacker, Amedy Coulibaly. He was the only defendant to face a life term, and his frequent profane outbursts during the case drew a rebuke from the judge.
Several of the defendants exchanged texts or calls with Coulibaly in the days leading up to the attack.
Seventeen people were killed in the two attacks, as well as three gunmen. On January 7, 2015, 12 people were shot dead when two gunmen raided the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo before fleeing.
As the two gunmen fled, Coulibaly separately shot and killed a young policewoman after he failed to attack a Jewish community center in the suburb of Montrouge.
French court finds 14 guilty of aiding Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 18:51 IST
Paris [France], December 17 (ANI): A French court on Wednesday found 14 defendants guilty of aiding the terrorist attacks, which killed 17 people in 2015, including 10 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
Regis de Jorna, the presiding magistrate, read the verdict to a hushed wood-panelled courtroom in northern Paris, reported New York Times.
Two days after the killings at Charlie Hebdo, four people were killed at a kosher Paris supermarket during a separate but coordinated attack.
The trial, which opened more than three months ago, was delayed for several weeks due to an outbreak of COVID-19 among the accused.
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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.
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AFP, PARIS
A Paris court on Wednesday handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping 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 afterward as a victory for justice and freedom of speech after a sometimes traumatic trial that revived the horror of the killings.