A man accused of helping find weapons for the jihadist button men who attacked the Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...magazine and a Jewish supermarket in La Belle France eight years ago was given a life sentence after his appeal trial, a judicial source said Thursday.
Ali Riza Polat,
| ...born in Istanbul, he moved with his family to France at age three, and grew up in the same Paris suburb as his dear friend Mr. Coulibaly, where he early embarked on a life of drug dealing and petty crime. He claims to have converted to Islam (from what?) in 2014. His major triumph appears to have been marrying his defense lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who once defended Carlos the Jackal ... |
A second suspect who appealed his 20-year sentence for conspiring with the attackers, Amar Ramdani,
| ...described as intelligent — whatever that means to a French jury — the Algerian immigrated to France at the tender age of six, but only made the acquaintance of his dear friend while working together in the prison laundry two years before the events in question... |
Twelve people were massacred at Charlie Hebdo’s Gay Paree offices on January 7, 2015, by the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who said they were acting on behalf of al-Qaeda to avenge the paper’s decision to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
A day later, Amedy Coulibaly killed a 27-year-old police officer during a traffic check outside Gay Paree, before killing four Jewish men during a hostage-taking at the Hyper Cacher supermarket on January 9, claiming to act in the name of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terror group.
All three were killed by police, and in December 2020 a French court convicted 14 people of helping to carry out the attacks. Polat and Ramdani were the only ones to appeal their convictions.
Polat’s new sentence carries a minimum jail time of 20 years before he can be eligible for parole.
The Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher killings marked the start of a deadly wave of Islamist attacks around Europe, in particular the harrowing killing spree a few months later at the Bataclan concert hall and at Gay Paree bars and cafes in November 2015.
| Related from 2020: Amar Ramdani, the accused friend of Coulibaly, pleads "incomprehension" |
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