Paris – More than five years after the deadly attack on the Paris office fees of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, 14 people were heard on Wednesday for their role in helping the three attackers, all of whom were killed by police. On January 7, 2015, the Saeed and Charif Kuachi brothers broke into the newspaper’s fees and killed 11 people, including eight editorial staff.
Charlie Hebdo’s director, Stephen Charbonnier, better known as “Charb”, was killed in the shooting.
When they fled the scene, after numerous threats to the newspaper, the brothers killed a police officer who was stationed at a checkpoint outside the building.
Those threats related to the publication of cartoons depicting Charlie Hebdo’s Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims consider any depiction of the prophet’s resemblance to be oblivious and millions were offended by the cartoon.
As soon as the hearing began on Wednesday, the newspaper republished some cartoons under the headline: “Tout out ça red ça” (all this for that).
The paper now operates in a secret, heavily guarded location and continues to receive threats from its reporters, but its notorious director, Lure Rent “Res”, who was wounded in the attack, vowed in a new edition: “We will never give up. And we never will.” We will not give up. “
It has been five and a half years since the trial of this case. At the time, investigators launched a series of attacks, first on Charlie Hebdo’s office fees, then two days later at a Jewish supermarket in a Paris suburb.
Police initially thought the second attack was a copycat job. However, in the making of their case, investigators found that the two were closely linked, and that the Kuachi brothers and Amadi Kulibali – who killed a policewoman in January and then four while taking hostage at the HyperCatcher supermarket in January. There were individuals – many allies are common.
The lawsuit alleges that 14 people helped the Kuachi brothers and Kulibali. They face a variety of charges, including aiding and abetting, funding, buying weapons and cars to get rid of the attackers. They face a possible sentence of 10 years and life imprisonment.
Only 11 accused were in court on Wednesday. Two of the other three are missing, Killed in Syria. The third, Kulibali’s religious wife, was spotted at an ISIS camp in Syria a few months ago.
In a rare decision to try terrorism in France, the judges agreed that the high-security court proceedings would be made for the North. There is no live broadcast from inside the court, as the practice is prohibited under French law.
Many will be allowed into the courtroom, where anti-coronavirus action has halved the number of seats available for the case to the press, the public and more than 200 civic parties. Those civic parties include some of the hostages at the Jewish supermarket and relatives of the 17 people killed in the three attacks.
“This trial is an important moment for them [victims and survivors]”In a statement to the French news agency AFP, the lawyers who were the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Marie-Louis Berry and Nathalie Senik, said.” They are waiting for justice to be done, who did what, knowing that those who pulled the trigger are no longer there. ”
A total of 144 witnesses and 14 experts will be called during the trail, which will run for 11 weeks ending on November 10.
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