Several ceremonies were held Monday in Paris to pay tribute to the 17 victims of the attacks of Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge and Hyper Hide in January 2015, the first of a wave of jihadist attacks that hit France.
Families, relatives and authorities gathered at the end of the morning at a ceremony in rue Nicolas-Appert, in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo, four years to the day after the attack that targeted the satirical newspaper. On January 7, 2015, brothers Sherif and Said Kouachi, radical Islamists, killed 12 people in the Charlie Hebdo attack before fleeing.
In memory of the victims of the terrorist attack on freedom of expression perpetrated on Charlie Hebdo's premises on January 7, 2015.
Frederic Boisseau
Franck Brinsolaro
Cabu
Elsa Cayat
Charb
Honored
Bernard Maris
Mustapha Ourrad
Michel Renaud
Tignous
Georges Wolinski pic.twitter.com/npH2YU2iWr
Several members of the government present. Two other tributes were also organized on Richard-Lenoir boulevard, where the lieutenant of police Ahmed Merabet was shot down by the Kouachi brothers, and in front of Hyper Hide, where Amédy Coulibaly killed four men, all Jews, during a of hostages on January 9, 2015.
Reading of the commemorative plaques, laying of wreaths, minute of silence: the ceremonies were marked by a great sobriety, respecting the requests of the families of the victims. The Ministers of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, and Justice Nicole Belloubet, accompanied by the Secretary of State Laurent Nuñez, the Minister of Culture Franck Riester and the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, attended.
A tribute to Clarissa Jean-Philippe also planned. Two ceremonies are also planned Tuesday in tribute to Clarissa Jean-Philippe, municipal policewoman killed in Montrouge, in the Hauts-de-Seine, on January 8 by Amedy Coulibaly, on the scene of the tragedy and Carrières-sous-Poissy, in the Yvelines where the victim resided.
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After four years of investigation into the attacks of Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher in January 2015, the Paris prosecutor's office requested on 21 December 2018 a trial in the assizes for 14 people involved to varying degrees in these attacks . It is now up to the anti-terrorist investigating judges to decide to refer all or part of these suspects to a specially constituted Assize Court. All are suspected, at a minimum, of logistical support to the brothers Kouachi and Amédy Coulibaly.