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  • Attacks: the trial that will reopen the wounds of 'Charlie Hebdo', the zero kilometer of jihadism in France

The trial of the January 2015 attacks began today at the Paris Palace of Justice under heavy security measures,

five years after

three jihadists killed 17 people in three attacks: the massacre in the editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , the taking of hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris and the murder of a policewoman in Montrouge.

Fourteen people will be tried from today until November 10 - three of them absent - for allegedly

having provided logistical, financial and material assistance

, to a greater or lesser degree, to the brothers Cherif and Saïd Kouachi and Amédy Coulibaly to commit the attacks.

The three terrorists were killed by the police after the attacks.

The defendants face

sentences of between 10 years and life in prison,

depending on their level of involvement in the attacks.

Ten of the accused are currently in preventive detention and one free but under judicial control.

Three of the accused - Hayat Boumedienne, Coulibaly's widow, and the brothers Mohamed and Mehdi Belhoucine - are still in search and capture.

The terrorist's widow was seen in the spring in Syria, while the Belhoucine brothers would be dead, according to various sources.

In total there will be 49 days of hearings, in which

94 lawyers, 144 witnesses and 14 experts will participate.

There are 200 parties constituted as private prosecution and 90 national and international media accredited to follow this trial, considered historic by the French press.

This trial will be the first on terrorist crimes to

be filmed

in its

entirety

in France.

The process will not be broadcast live on television or on the Internet, but the recording will become part of the justice files.

The images will be accessible to the public in 50 years.

Due to the health crisis of Covid-19, the use of the mask is mandatory in the room where the trial takes place, as recalled at the beginning of the hearing by Régis de Jorna, president of the special criminal court made up of five career magistrates.

The magazine republishes the cartoons of Muhammad

Hours before the start of the process, French President Emmanuel Macron defended from Lebanon, where he was visiting, "the freedom to blaspheme" in France.

Macron was responding to a journalist's question about Charlie Hebdo's decision to republish the Muhammad cartoons, five years after the attack.

The new issue of Charlie Hebdo, which returns to cover these controversial drawings, went on sale today on newsstands in France, coinciding with the start of the trial.

The magazine had already reproduced the Muhammad cartoons in 2006, for this reason it became a target of the jihadists.

"In our country since the beginning of the Third Republic (...) there is in France a freedom to blaspheme that is linked to freedom of conscience. And from where I am, I am there to protect those freedoms," said Macron, who He recalled that there is also "the

duty not to have hate speech and to respect

".

But for the French president "a cartoon is not a hate speech."

The January 2015 attacks were the starting point for a wave of jihadist attacks in France.

On January 7, 2015, the Kouachi brothers murdered 11 people in the Charlie Hebdo newsroom and a policeman on the streets of Paris.

Among the dead, the cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski.

"We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad! We have killed Charlie Hebdo!" The jihadists proclaimed in the street.

It was his revenge for having published the Muhammad cartoons in 2006.

After the attacks, the slogan "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) traveled the world in solidarity with the victims of Charlie Hebdo and in defense of freedom of expression.

On January 8, Coulibaly, an accomplice of the Kouachi brothers, killed the municipal police Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge (outskirts of Paris).

On January 9, Coulibaly took hostages at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket.

Three clients and one employee were killed in this anti-Semitic attack.

The three terrorists responsible for the attacks are dead.

Coulibaly was killed on 9 January by the police in the supermarket and the Kouachi brothers that same day at a printing plant where they had barricaded themselves after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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