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A Paris court has handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping gunmen who massacred cartoonists at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and customers at a Jewish supermarket in January 2015. Lawyers for the victims and activists hailed Wednesday’s verdict that they said was a victory for justice and freedom of speech after a sometimes traumatic three-month trial, repeatedly delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, that had revived the horror of the killings. Among the 14 was Hayat Boumeddiene, former partner of Amedy Coulibaly who killed a...

Verdicts due for 14 over links to Jan. 2015 Paris attackers by Lori Hinnant, The Associated Press Posted Dec 16, 2020 4:34 am EDT Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 4:42 am EDT FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, an injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, France. The terrorism trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket ends Wednesday after three months punctuated by new attacks, a wave of coronavirus infections among the defen...

The trial of 14 people accused of links to a series of Islamist militant attacks in Paris in January 2015, including on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket, came to an end on Wednesday with all convicted of involvement. The attacks took place between 7-9 January, leaving 17 people dead along with the three gunmen. Hayat Boumeddiene, the fugitive wife of attacker Amédy Coulibaly, received a 30-year prison sentence. Boumeddiene had fled to Syria and is believed to be still alive. The principal defendant, Ali Riza Polat, was found guilty of "complicity" in "terrorist" crimes committ...

PARIS (AP) — The terrorism trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket ends Wednesday after three months punctuated by new attacks, a wave of coronavirus infections among the defendants, and devastating testimony bearing witness to three days of bloodshed that shook France. Three of the 14 fled to Syria just ahead of the Jan. 7-9, 2015 attacks in Paris, which left 17 dead along with the three gunmen — who claimed the killings in the name of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. The other 11, all men, formed a c...

Text size A French court on Wednesday jailed for 30 years the main accused present for the trial over the 2015 killings at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices and a Jewish supermarket, stopping short of the life term demanded by the prosecution. Ali Riza Polat was convicted of complicity in terror crimes by the court, which also gave a 30-year jail sentence in absentia to Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of one of the attackers. She fled to Syria in the wake of the killings. All the attackers were killed in the wake of the killings. A total of 14 suspected accomplices went on trial, three ...