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Today sentences are announced against the 14 suspected Islamist terrorists who participated in various ways, including the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015.
A total of 17 people were killed during three days of attacks in January 2015, the first of which was against Charlie Hebdo, who had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi killed a security guard before breaking into Charlie Hebdo’s publishing office in Paris on January 7, 2015. They asked for the editor-in-chief and then fired their guns.
Killed in the editorial office
Eleven people died in the newsroom. There were five newspaper cartoonists, two columnists, and a proofreader.
A policeman who tried to arrest the brothers also died.
The Kouachi brothers shouted that they had avenged Prophet Muhammad. They then fled in a car.
On January 9, Amedy Coulibaly took several people hostage in a Jewish store. Then Coulibaly killed a policewoman and then killed four people in the store.
Around the same time, the police raid the grocery store and a print shop where the Kouachi brothers are hiding.
The police killed all the perpetrators during the storms.
She is convicted – believed to be in Syria
Coulibaly’s girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene, who fled to Syria shortly after the attack, has also been charged during the trial, despite not being present but fleeing.
She has been convicted of financing terrorism. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Hayat Boumeddiene is believed to still be in Syria, where he is said to have joined the Islamic State.
The Kouachi brothers claimed they were acting on behalf of al-Qaeda, while Coulibaly had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.
The trial is considered historic as the authorities have filmed it for posterity.
The 14 people who have been charged are not alleged perpetrators, but they are accused of having helped with weapons, housing or money.
Of the 14, seven are believed to have intended to commit terrorist crimes. The 14 are sentenced to different penalties between 4 and 30 years.
The trial has lasted for more than three months and has been repeatedly interrupted due to the corona pandemic.
