The attacks on the French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" in 2015 claimed a total of 17 lives.
Now the verdict for the perpetrators has been finalized.
Paris - The attacks had rocked France - now the judgments have been made.
In the trial of the attacks on "Charlie Hebdo", a satirical newspaper from Paris, and a Jewish supermarket almost six years ago, the accused have now been sentenced to prison terms.
You have to go to prison for four years to life.
The Paris special jury found her guilty on Wednesday of supporting the three assassins who
killed
a total of
17 people in Paris
in January 2015
- including some of France's best-known cartoonists.
The two
main defendants
received
30 years imprisonment and life sentences
as "accomplices" of the assassins
.
The anti-terrorist prosecutor had demanded the maximum sentence for both.
The three assassins themselves were shot dead by the Paris police after the attacks.
The main defendant, Mohamed Belhoucine, was believed to have been killed in Syria by the intelligence services, and the verdict against him is therefore considered symbolic.
The second main defendant, Ali Riza Polat, immediately announced an
appeal
against his 30-year prison sentence.
Charlie Hebdo: 14 defendants convicted in absentia
A total of three of the 14 defendants were convicted in absentia
.
Among them was Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of one of the assassins, as the only woman.
The process is considered historic because it was the largest to date because of Islamist attacks in France.
The
editorial director
of "
Charlie Hebdo
", Laurent Sourisseau, expressed the hope that the verdict would "end the cycle of violence that began in the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo".
The trauma of the survivors remains, as the testimony of the victims in court had shown, he wrote under his stage name Riss in an editorial.
Sourisseau
survived the attack, albeit seriously injured.
There had been an unprecedented wave of solidarity after the attack.
Numerous people took to the streets
under the motto
“Je suis Charlie”
(I am Charlie), and others expressed their solidarity in online networks around the world.
The newspaper recently caused a stir with an Erdogan * cartoon.
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