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The recording of the trial until 10 November is an exceptional opportunity, since the recordings of the judicial proceedings are prohibited in France. The exception is allowed because the claim is of particular importance to the historical archives of the judiciary.
On January 7, 2015, two French jihadists stormed the Paris editorial office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, killing twelve people and wounding eleven. In a massacre that lasted just two minutes, the magazine’s seven main cartoonists, including editor-in-chief Charb, were executed with 34 shots.
The attackers were pursued for two days. Meanwhile, a third of his comrades shot dead a police officer in a southern Paris suburb and then the next day killed Jewish hostages in a kosher grocery store, four of whom were killed. The police carried out simultaneous operations with the three terrorists and released the hostages.
Seventeen people were killed in the three-day attacks, including three police officers, and twenty-one were injured. In memory of them and in protest against terrorism, on January 11, 2015, nearly four million took to the streets across the country.
The series of attacks marked the beginning of a wave of Islamist killings in France in which more than 250 people lost their lives.
The investigation soon revealed that a bloodthirsty brother, Charlie and Said Kouachi, at the Charlie Hebdo editorial office, and Amédy Coulibaly, who was working with a policewoman and taking Jewish hostages, may have met. The threads led to a radical Islamist group in eastern Paris that was liquidated in 2005 and recruited European fighters to Iraq.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo was carried out by the Yemeni wing of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
As a result of an investigation that ended more than two years ago, fourteen people have been charged, eleven of whom will appear in court. There are ten in preventive detention, a man is free to defend himself. All the suspects deny knowing the preparations for the murders.
An arrest warrant exists for three people, including two alleged clients, Mohamed and Mehdi Belhoucine, and one of their jihadist wives, Hayat Boumeddiene. They traveled to Syria before the attacks. The French press has repeatedly reported the news of the death of clients, but this has not been confirmed by official sources. The wife is known to be under the protection of persistent jihadists in Syria.
The main defendant in the trial is Ali Riza Polat, 34, a friend of the kidnapper Amédy Coulibaly, whom the prosecution suspects played a central role in organizing the murders and is therefore suspected of complicity in a murder. terrorist to life imprisonment. It was believed that he had obtained the weapons from Belgium, and it was also his job to remove any traces that might have pointed to the network that was carrying out the series of attacks.
Another nine suspects are charged with criminal charges for the charge, they can face twenty years in prison. The suspect who freely defends himself is accused of crimes under public law for which he could be sentenced to ten years in prison. All of them had already had to deal with the police for crimes under public law, some had been convicted of drug trafficking in Paris and had met Amédy Coulibaly in prison.
Charlie Hebdo, by the way, re-published on the cover of his issue on Wednesday the cartoons that mocked the Prophet Muhammad and made the newspaper a target of jihadists.
“We will never give up. We will never give up,” said Riss, the current editor-in-chief of the newspaper, who was seriously injured in the January 7, 2015 terrorist attack.
The twelve drawings originally appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005 and were published by Charlie Hebdo a year later. The French satirical newspaper was threatened several times after the announcement, and the editorial office was set on fire. After the attack, Charlie Hebdo moved out, his security has been tightened, and the editorial staff continues to work in a secret location. The newspaper’s staff have received several death threats in recent years, as the newspaper has become a symbol of freedom of expression around the world.
The representation of prophets is strictly forbidden by Islam, and mocking Muhammad is punishable by death in some Muslim countries.
Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the French umbrella organization for the Muslim religion in France, called for the cartoons to be ignored on Tuesday and called on believers to remember the victims of terrorism.
“Nothing can justify violence,” stressed the religious leader. “We have learned to ignore cartoons and we ask everyone to follow this behavior in all circumstances,” he added.
MTI, News TV
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