FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Trial over 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks resumes after Covid-19 infections among suspects” – below is their description.
The trial linked to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks resumes today in Paris, with 14 people being judged due to suspected links to those attacks at the satirical magazine but also at the Parisian suburb of Montrouge and at a kosher supermarket. 17 people were killed in the assaults 10 months before the Bataclan attacks in Paris. The trial had been stopped due to multiple suspicions of Covid-19 cases among defendants, including the main one, as FRANCE 24’s Chris Moore reports from the Court.
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In This Story: Charlie Hebdo
On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30am CET local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
Several related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region on 7–9 January 2015, including the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege.
Charlie Hebdo is a publication that courted controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders. It published cartoons of Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals. Its offices were also firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a caricature of Muhammad on its cover.