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The security crackdown was extensive when the trial began at 10 am Wednesday morning in a newly built courthouse at the Porte de Clichy in northern Paris.
Barriers had been placed around the entire block and everyone present was screened with metal detectors.
The three terrorists Those who committed the act in January 2015 are dead, but the Prosecutor’s Office believes that it can be shown that they received logistical support from various relatives, friends and acquaintances.
Eleven defendants were taken to the specially constructed room on Wednesday, where ten of them were placed in special glass boxes for security reasons. They provided names and personal information and said they were willing to answer questions.
Three other people have been charged with involvement but are still at large. They are said to have traveled to Syria and will be sentenced in their absence.
In the assassination attempt in satire magazine Charlie Hebdo killed 12 people, while 11 were injured. The attack on the Jewish store in eastern Paris claimed four lives. Furthermore, a policewoman was killed in a Paris suburb.
The trial is being filmed, which is unusual in France. But this is not a live broadcast. Access to the full material is severely restricted for the next 20 years. The idea is to give historians access to as complete material as possible, even if the media is expected to be able to publish short excerpts from the trial.
Several survivors are expected to testify about the attacks, and the intention is not the least to document this.
He previously has eleven trials filmed entirely in France. Among them are the 1987 trial of the Nazi officer and war criminal Klaus Barbie (also known as “The Butcher of Lyon”) and of the French war criminal Maurice Papon in 1997-1998. The last time a trial was filmed in the country was in 2018, when the two Rwandan politicians Octavien Ngenzi and Tito Barahira were tried in Paris for their actions during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
On Wednesday, the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo republished a dozen of the Muhammad cartoons believed to have been the motive for the attack five years ago. On the cover was the text: “All this, for this.”
The trial is expected to last until mid-November.
Read more: The trial begins: Charlie Hebdo publishes the cartoons of Muhammad again
