Laura Laplaud with AFP 8:45 a.m., October 21, 2022, modified at 8:48 a.m., October 21, 2022

Richard Malka, lawyer for the publishing company of "Charlie Hebdo" and author of "Le droit d'emmerder Dieu" published by Grasset, was the guest of Europe Matin on Friday.

Nearly eight years after the electroshock of the jihadist attacks against 

Charlie Hebdo

 and Hyper Cacher, Ali Riza Polat was again found guilty of complicity in the crimes of the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly, and sentenced Thursday to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment.

"It's a Charlie Hebdo

fight

, it's a symbol, what do you want us to do other than keep fighting?" Reacted Richard Malka, lawyer for 

Charlie 's publishing company.

Hebdo

and author of

Le droit d'emmerder Dieu

published by Grasset.

>> Find the 8:13 interview in replay and podcast here

“My role was to address public opinion”

"My role as a lawyer for the Charlie Hebdo

newspaper

was to address public opinion, to society," he said on Europe 1. "We are all tired because it is an ordeal. A trial as this one lasts six weeks, it's exhausting physically, morally, psychologically... It stirred us all a lot to come back."

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