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Ali Riza Polat

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Suspect in Charlie Hebdo attack gets life sentence on appeal

October 20, 2022 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A man accused of helping find weapons for the jihadist gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in France eight years ago was given a life sentence after his appeal trial, a judicial source said Thursday. Ali […]

Interfaith

Appeal trial opens over 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in France

September 12, 2022 Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) The appeal trial opened in Paris on Monday for two men suspected of helping the gunmen who stormed the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, the first of a wave of Islamist terror attacks that have […]

Arts & Entertainment

Appeal to start in French court over Charlie Hebdo attack

September 10, 2022 Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) An appeal trial is set to begin Monday as two men ruled to have helped Islamist gunmen prepare a deadly 2015 attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo seek to overturn their convictions. Twelve people were killed at the magazine’s Paris office […]

Legal

French court hands guilty verdicts to all Charlie Hebdo accomplices

December 16, 2020 Mike Woods  

(Radio France) A Paris court has handed guilty verdicts to 14 suspects accused of helping to plan deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, police officers and a kosher market in January 2015. The court dropped terror qualifications for six suspects, citing evidence […]

Legal

Charlie Hebdo attack: France seeks long jail terms in Paris trial

December 8, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) France’s anti-terror prosecutors have called for defendants on trial for a series of militant Islamist attacks in Paris to be given long jail terms. The January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, a policewoman and a Jewish supermarket left 17 people […]

Interfaith

French lawyers express dismay at downplaying of antisemitism during trial of terror suspects linked to Jan. 2015 attacks

December 7, 2020 Ben Cohen  

(Algemeiner) Prosecutors at the trial in France of 14 defendants charged with providing support to the Islamist terrorists behind the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris began their closing arguments in court on Monday, amid concern that the antisemitic character of the […]

Legal

‘I won’t be your scapegoat,’ Charlie Hebdo attack suspect tells Paris court

October 26, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(Radio France) The main defendant in France’s Charlie Hebdo trial on Monday again denied all involvement in the January 2015 attacks as he appeared before Paris’s Special Assize Court. Ali Riza Polat, who is one of 14 people being tried, told judges […]

Law Enforcement

‘You will pay’: Paris attacks suspect threatens police witness

October 16, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The main suspect in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Paris terror attacks caused an uproar in court Friday when he threatened a policewoman during her testimony. “You will pay for this,” shouted Ali Riza Polat, who is believed […]

Legal

Charlie Hebdo, market attacks turned widow into fugitive

September 5, 2020 Nicolas Vaux-Montagny  

(AP) The fugitive widow of the Islamic State killer who plotted attacks against the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and a kosher market calls home to France once a year to catch up, her sisters testified, offering new details about one of the […]

Legal

‘You cannot kill the innocent’: Key Charlie Hebdo suspect denies charges

September 4, 2020 Valentin Bontemps  

(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, […]

Legal

Trial opens over Charlie Hebdo terror attacks that stunned France

September 2, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Valentin Bontemps  

(AFP) Fourteen suspected accomplices of the jihadist gunmen who attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket appeared in a Paris court Wednesday, five years after the three days of terror that rocked France. The killings, which began on January […]

Legal

Suspects in France’s Charlie Hebdo killings face justice

August 26, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) Fourteen alleged accomplices in the 2015 jihadist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket go on trial next Wednesday more than half-a-decade after days of bloodshed that still shock France. The attacks heralded a wave of Islamist […]

Legal

Trial over France Charlie Hebdo attacks to begin in April

June 7, 2019 Nathalie Alonso and Stuart Williams  

(AFP) Fourteen suspects will go on trial before a special court in Paris in April 2020 charged over attacks around the French capital in January 2015, including the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, legal sources said on Friday. […]

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