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More than five years after the attack on the French satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo”, the trial of the alleged assistants of the attackers has begun. The process was opened on Wednesday before a Paris jury court under high security. 13 men and one woman are charged. They face several years in prison up to life in prison.
The suspects are said to have supported the Islamist brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, who broke into the editorial office of “Charlie Hebdo” on January 7, 2015 and killed twelve people, including some of France’s most famous cartoonists. According to the indictment, they also assisted the extremist Amédy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and four other people in the process of taking hostages in a supermarket visited by Jews. The three murderers were caught and killed by the police.
Counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the trial had two objectives: “to get closer to the truth” and to let the survivors express their opinion.
The editor-in-chief of “Charlie Hebdo”, Laurent Sourisseau, wrote in a special edition of the newspaper: “One process is not enough.” He expressed the hope that “in ten or 20 years, freer spirits will emerge than those of our time.” In the special edition, you can see again the cartoons of Muhammad, with which the Islamists justified their act.
Special issue: All for that.
Find:
👉 A scavenger anthology from January 7, 2015
👉 Judgment: families have a voice
👉 Exclusive survey @IfopOpinion : Freedom of expression is important, but …Available tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/NyiTmva6Kr
?? Charlie Hebdo (@CharlieHebdo_) September 1, 2020
Macron: right to blasphemy
Before the start of the trial in Paris for the attack on the satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” in January 2015, French President Emmanuel Macron defended the right to blasphemy in his country. The right to blasphemous statements and representations is covered by freedom of conscience in France, Macron said Tuesday during a visit to the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
His role as president is “to protect these freedoms,” Macron stressed at a press conference. It is not the job of the French president to judge the editorial decisions of a journalist or an editorial team.
(what, afp)
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