Called to make "history" almost six years after the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, the trial of the January 2015 attacks brought out the powerful words of the victims but found themselves confronted with a riddled file. gray areas and "ordinary" defendants.
In the absence of the perpetrators of the attacks, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly, killed in police assaults after sowing terror in France, the special assize court of Paris tried eleven alleged logisticians who never claimed to be jihadist ideology.
"Surrogate guilty" for the defense, "linchpin" of the attacks for the prosecution, these men aged 29 to 68 have all been found guilty but only four of them have been convicted of terrorism, all close to Amedy Coulibaly, the killer of the Hyper Cacher.
The penalties range from four years to thirty years in prison for those accused present.
Mohamed Belhoucine, religious mentor of Amedy Coulibaly, was sentenced to life imprisonment, even though he is presumed dead in Syria, where he left a few days before the attacks.
Born in Belgium in 1954, Michel Kichka produced one of the cartoons featured this week by Cartooning for Peace to address this historic trial.
He is one of the best-known representatives of Israeli caricature.
He works as an illustrator, cartoonist and cartoonist, and works as an editorial cartoonist for Israeli (Channel 2, Channel 1, i24 news) and French (TV5 Monde) television channels.
He also draws regularly for Courrier International and for Regards (Belgium).
Click here to view this drawing in its original format.
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
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