(AFP) The trial of 14 people accused of helping the jihadist gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and other Paris targets in January 2015 has been postponed because of France’s coronavirus lockdown, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The presiding judge for the trial, originally set to open on May 4, said the strict home confinement rules made it impossible to bring together “all the parties, witnesses and experts under the necessary sanitary conditions,” according to a court order seen by AFP.
No new date has been set, although the national anti-terrorism prosector’s office said it would probably be pushed back until next autumn.
