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MENA Observatory – France
Today Wednesday, the Special Criminal Court in Paris delivers its verdict on 14 accused of supporting planners of the 2015 attacks on the French satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” and a shop that sells Jewish food.
In the attacks, 17 people were killed, including 11 in the “Charlie Hebdo” newspaper on January 7, 2015 and four in a supermarket that sold Jewish food two days later, and two men were killed by these attacks.
The accusation demanded severe penalties commensurate with the extreme gravity of the facts, and could reach life imprisonment, according to French media.
For its part, the defense urged the court to avoid at all costs compensation for the absence of “Saeed Kouachi”, his brother “Sharif” and “Amidi Coulibaly”.
However, prosecutors claimed that these three terrorists who were shot to death by the security forces on January 9, 2015 were “nothing” without the defendants who are currently in process and demanded that they be sentenced to prison terms that They range from five years to life in prison.
The prosecution called for maximum penalties to be imposed on two suspects believed to be “accomplices” in the attacks, namely “Muhammad Belhasin”, who was tried in absentia after his departure for Syria, and “Ali Reza Polat”, who was described as the center of the preparatory work.
The prosecution also requested the imprisonment of “Hayat Boumediene”, the partner of “Amedi Coulibaly” Al-Fara, thirty-twenty years old, against “Mahdi Belhassen”, who helped her out.
He was sentenced to between five and twenty years in prison for the other ten defendants who are believed to have provided weapons or equipment to the perpetrators “with full knowledge of the objective of the perpetrators of the attacks, according to prosecutors.”
The prosecution says they are the “backbone and spine” of the attacks.
In their last words, on Monday, before the court began its deliberations after 54 days of debate, these men between 29 and 68 years old, who had a history but not in acts related to terrorism, confirmed that they had nothing to do with it. do with the attacks.
The lawyers of the accused asked the court for five days not to succumb to fear, searching for the suspects at all costs, in an environment of great terrorist threat in the country.
Since the trial began on 2 September, there have been three attacks in France, one of which targeted the former headquarters of the newspaper “Charlie Hebdo”. These attacks were the first in a long series of attacks in France.
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