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Share on Twitter A Paris court on Wednesday handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping Islamist 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 a verdict that they said was a victory for justice and freedom of speech after a sometimes traumatic three-month trial that had revived the horror of the killings. The attacks followed the publication by Charlie Hebdo of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed which had caus...

30-year jail terms for suspected accomplices of terrorists in 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks Terrorists killed 17 people during the attacks on the offices of a magazine and a Jewish supermarket. By AFP Wednesday 16 Dec 2020, 5:34 PM Dec 16th 2020, 5:01 PM 8,777 Views 15 Comments A police officier guards the courtroom at the Paris Hall of Justice today Image: AP/PA Images Image: AP/PA Images Updated Dec 16th 2020, 5:34 PM A FRENCH COURT has hand...

2 shares Republican guards stand outside the Hyper Cacher supermarket ahead of a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the deadly attack against the store in Paris on January 5, 2017. (AFP/Christophe Archambault) PARIS, France (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 th...

“It’s my modesty,” he says. On January 9, 2015, the then 24-year-old was working in the stockroom of the supermarket when a gunman stormed in. “You people are the two things I hate most in this world,” the supermarket attacker, Amedy Coulibaly, told shoppers before taking them hostage. “You are Jewish and French.” Bathily, a Muslim employee, quickly directed about 15 shoppers into the basement where he hid them in a cold-storage room during the four-hour siege. In the attack, four people were killed, five including the gunman. Two days earlier, the assault on Charlie Hebdo had t...