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2020-12-09 Europe
French prosecutors seek long jail terms for Charlie Hebdo attack suspects
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] Prosecutors on Tuesday sought stiff sentences from five years to life in jail for 14 suspected accomplices of the Death Eater button men who murdered cartoonists and killed hostages at a Jewish supermarket in Gay Paree in 2015.Sixteen people were killed in the attack at Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
satirical magazine, which had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and during a hostage-taking three days later.

One of the three assailants, all of whom were killed by police in shootouts, also rubbed out a policewoman.

Those on trial since September are accused of providing varying degrees of logistical support to Charlie Hebdo killers Cherif and Said Kouachi and supermarket hostage-taker Amedy Coulibaly. They deny the charges.

Three of the fourteen suspects, who range in age from 29 to 68 and include Coulibaly’s girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene,
...wife of Mali-Frenchman Amedy Coulibaly, she decamped for ISIS in Syria just before his particular excitement. She reportedly died of an airstrike during the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani...
are being tried in absentia.

Boumeddiene fled to Syria shortly after the attacks. Her whereabouts is not known.

Prosecutors sought a life term for Ali Riza Polat,
...born in Istanbul, he moved with his family to France at age three, and grew up in the same Paris suburb as his dear friend Mr. Coulibaly, where he early embarked on a life of drug dealing and petty crime. He claims to have converted to Islam (from what?) in 2014. His major triumph appears to have been marrying his defense lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who once defended Carlos the Jackal ...
a 35-year-old French-Ottoman Turkish national, presented during the trial as Coulibaly’s "right-hand man" accused of helping him and the Kouachi brothers secure weapons.

Polat admitted to the court he had taken part in various "scams" but denied any knowledge of what Coulibaly, who had sworn allegiance to ISIS Death Eater group, and his accomplices were planning.

Polat’s co-accused, including two men who spent time in jail alongside Coulibaly, also denied any hand in the attacks and rejected allegations of being radicalized.

The killing of the cartoonists caused deep shock in secular La Belle France, which has a tradition of anti-holy manal satire.

After the start of the trial, the cartoons were at the center of another deadly attack in October, with a young Chechen refugee beheading teacher Samuel Paty for showing some of the caricatures to pupils in a class on free speech.
Posted by Fred 2020-12-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top
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