Fourteen people will go on trial in Paris next May over the January 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and other targets that heralded a wave of jihadist strikes on France, judicial sources said Wednesday.
The trial will take place from May 4 to July 10, lawyers and a judicial source tell AFP.
Seventeen people were killed over three days in and around Paris in January 2015 in the attacks.
Floral tributes are laid on the ground during a minutes silence in Paris on January 8, 2015, a day after Islamist gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. (photo credit: AFP/ MARTIN BUREAU
Cherif Kouachi and his brother Said killed 12 people on January 7 at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, including some of France’s best known cartoonists.
Over the following two days, a third gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, shot dead a young policewoman and killed four people at a Jewish supermarket.
All three gunmen, who had claimed allegiance to jihadist groups, were killed by police.
Mourad Hamyd, 20, the brother-in-law of one of the Islamic extremists behind the January 2015 attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, waits in a detention centre in Sofia on August 15, 2016, prior to his extradition to France. (AFP/ DIMITAR DILKOFF)
The 14 accused are suspected of having provided logistical aid to the attackers.
The case will be heard by a special court seated, for logistical reasons, in a new, bigger building in the extreme northwest of Paris and not the Palace of Justice in the center that would ordinarily have hosted it, the sources said.
— AFP
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