Posted on 12/16/2020 10:46:10 AM PST by xomething
PARIS — A panel of French judges on Wednesday found all 14 defendants guilty of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket on the outskirts of Paris.
The long-awaited verdict followed a three-month trial that captivated the French public even in the midst of a deadly pandemic. France, far more than any other Western nation, has been a constant target of Islamist terrorists in recent years: More than 260 people have been killed in a relentless series of attacks since 2012. But given the particular emotional significance of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Wednesday’s verdict represented a national catharsis.
Of the 14 defendants, three were tried in absentia and five were spared the charge of terrorist complicity, sentenced only to involvement in a criminal conspiracy.
The trial was hugely symbolic for France. Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, the two brothers who killed 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office in Paris, were killed on that day in January 2015. Their accomplice, Amedy Coulibaly, who was responsible for a related attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket two days later that left four people dead, was killed at the scene by French police.
The defendants in the resulting trial were accused of either criminal conspiracy or terrorist complicity in the Charlie Hebdo shootings or the Hyper Cacher attack.
The defendants and their lawyers claimed that the trial was a means of identifying culprits when the actual authors of the attacks had already been killed. “You absolutely want a culprit, but it’s not going to be me,” said Ali Riza Polat, 35, during his questioning in October.
Polat was accused of having provided weapons to both Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers...
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Were the 14 defendants tried ‘in absentia’?
This took a very long time.
Almost as long as our American trial for that muslim-marine who shot his fellow troop members up back in 2009.
France has been home to bearded savages for years. Rather than enjoy wine and cheese, they prefer to make little jihadis, slice necks and shoot infidels.
2015. France must have Special Counsels, too.
Good.
Time to sharpen the rusty guillotine.
Oh, I forgot, French Hippies did away with all that mean stuff decades ago...
Let's just watch a bit . . . . .
Time for the French to go Charles Martel on the sanddiggers. My recommendation would be to deport them to the countries from which they immigrated by telling those contries to meet the French Navy halfway. If the other Navy does not show, place the sanddiggers into rubber rafts and leave. If rafts show up in French territorial waters, declare an invasion, sink the rafts, and let the sharks eat well.
Gosh, justice is so swift.
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