January 2015 attacks: An appeal trial for two defendants (Archives) -
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Only two of the eleven people convicted for their role in the January 2015 attacks against
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and Hyper Cacher have appealed and will therefore be retried, we learned Monday from a judicial source.
Ali Riza Polat had announced through the voice of his lawyer, as soon as the verdict of the Special Assize Court of Paris was announced on December 16, that he was going to appeal his conviction to thirty years of criminal imprisonment for "complicity" terrorist crimes committed by the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and Amédy Coulibaly.
Amar Ramdani, sentenced to twenty years in prison for criminal terrorist association, also appealed, said this judicial source.
Possibility of more severe penalties on appeal
The prosecution has formed an "incidental appeal" to those of the two convicts to give the Assize Court, which has to re-judge them, the possibility of increasing the sentences handed down at first instance, the same source said.
The national anti-terrorism prosecution had demanded life imprisonment against Ali Riza Polat, the only one of the eleven accused to have appeared before the special assize court for "complicity".
A seventeen-year prison sentence had been requested against Amar Ramdani.
The nine other convicts have not appealed and their sentences ranging from four years imprisonment to eighteen years of criminal imprisonment - very generally lower than those required by the prosecution - are therefore final.
The appeal trial of Ali Riza Polat and Amar Ramdani should not be held for many months.
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