Europe 1 with AFP 7:33 p.m., October 20, 2022, modified at 7:36 p.m., October 20, 2022
Main defendant, Ali Riza Polat, sentenced to 30 years in prison during a first trial for complicity in crimes committed in January 2015, was sentenced on appeal to life imprisonment.
The jihadist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher had killed 17 people.
Nearly eight years after the jihadist attacks against
Charlie Hebdo
and Hyper Cacher, Ali Riza Polat was sentenced Thursday evening on appeal to life imprisonment for complicity in the seventeen murders perpetrated by the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly in January 2015 at the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo, in Montrouge and at Hyper Cacher.
The special assize court of Paris has combined this sentence with a security period of twenty years.
Professional magistrates sentenced the second defendant, Amar Ramdani, to thirteen years' imprisonment, two-thirds of which were security.
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