(AFP) A primary suspect in the trial over the 2015 massacres at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere in Paris denied on Friday any responsibility for the attacks carried out by jihadists, one of whom was a close associate.
Ali Riza Polat, a 35-year-old Franco-Turkish man, was jailed a few weeks after the terror attack that stunned France, with investigators saying he tried to flee the country several times heading for Syria.
“I am innocent!” Polat told the court, his head shaved and his face hidden behind a cloth mask.
“I’m here because certain people, lying squealers, said all sorts of nonsense … but they’re lying,” he said.
