Global News published this video item, entitled “Charlie Hebdo shooting: 14 people found guilty in connection with 2015 terror attack” – below is their description.
A French court on Wednesday convicted 14 people of crimes ranging from financing terrorism to membership of a criminal gang in relation to terrorist attacks in 2015 against the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket.
Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris, spraying gunfire and killing 12, on Jan. 7, 2015, nearly a decade after the weekly published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
A third attacker, Amedy Coulibaly, killed a policewoman and then four Jewish hostages in a kosher supermarket in a Paris suburb. Like the Kouachi brothers, Coulibaly was killed in a shootout with police.
Among the 14 accomplices sentenced on Wednesday was Hayat Boumeddiene, the former partner of Coulibaly and one of three defendants tried in absentia – believed to be still alive, and on the run from an international arrest warrant.
The judges convicted Boumeddiene, 32, of financing terrorism and belonging to a criminal terrorist network, and sentenced her to 30 years in jail.
After Wednesday’s ruling, the magazine’s lawyer, Richard Malka, described the defendants as part of a nebulous support network that enabled the attackers to spill blood.
“We hadn’t come here with a desire for vengeance but with the wish to understand,” he told reporters, in the first reaction from the magazine or its representatives to the verdicts.
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