Six years later, sober tributes and in a select committee were paid Thursday morning in Paris to the victims of the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, the starting point of a wave of jihadist attacks in France, have noted AFP journalists.
Read also: The trial of the attacks of January 2015 at the time of requisitions
This is the first commemoration ceremony for the January 2015 attacks since the verdict of the Paris Special Assize Court in mid-December, which handed down four-year life sentences to thirteen people convicted to have assisted the authors.
About twenty personalities, including the director of Charlie Hebdo, Riss, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, François Hollande, president at the time of the attacks, and representatives of cults took part in these short tributes marked by minutes of silence and wreath laying, and punctuated by "
Marseillaise
".
The procession, restricted due in particular to the Covid-19 epidemic and protected by a large police force, first gathered around 11 a.m. rue Nicolas-Appert, in the 11th arrondissement, in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo where , at the same time and six years earlier to the day, the brothers Saïd and Cherif Kouachi had coldly killed 11 people, including emblematic figures of the newspaper such as the director and designer Charb, the cartoonists Cabu, Wolinski, Honoré, Tignous, the economist Bernard Maris or columnist and psychiatrist Elsa Cayat.
The procession then gathered a little further, Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where the two assailants, who came to "
avenge the prophet
" Mohammed who had been caricatured in Charlie Hebdo, killed their 12th victim, a policeman, Ahmed Merabet, before to take flight.
They will be shot two days later by the police in Seine-et-Marne.
The tributes ended shortly before noon at the Hyper Cacher store at Porte de Vincennes, where the names of the four victims were listed, killed on January 9 by Amedy Coulibaly, who was in contact with the Kouachi and will be shot in the assault. law enforcement.
