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French court finds accomplices to Charlie Hebdo attackers guilty

French court finds accomplices to Charlie Hebdo attackers guilty

TANGI SALAUN A French court has convicted 14 people of crimes ranging from financing terrorism to membership of a criminal gang in relation to Islamist attacks in 2015 against the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket. The trial has reopened one of modern France's darkest episodes, just as another wave of Islamist attacks on home soil this autumn, including the beheading of a schoolteacher, prompted the government to crack down on what it calls Islamist separatism. Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris, spraying gunfire and killing 12, on Jan. 7, 2015, nearly a…
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Two sentenced to death in Mali over hotel, restaurant attacks

Two sentenced to death in Mali over hotel, restaurant attacks

TIEMOKO DIALLO A Malian court handed a death sentence to a suspected jihadist and his co-defendant on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after he pleaded guilty to shooting five people to death in a 2015 attack and planning two other attacks targeting Westerners that killed 37. In a court appearance in Bamako on Wednesday, Fawaz Ould Ahmed described in detail how he carried out the attack on La Terrace restaurant in March 2015. He said he was also involved in planning a raid that killed 17 at Hotel Byblos in the town of Sevare in August and another that killed 20…
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Knifeman in Paris wounds two at scene of Charlie Hebdo attacks

Knifeman in Paris wounds two at scene of Charlie Hebdo attacks

TANGI SALAUN and EMILIE  DELWARD A man armed with a meat cleaver attacked and wounded two people who had stepped out for a cigarette in front of the Paris office building where Islamist militants gunned down employees of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago. Police soon after detained the man suspected of carrying out the attack, with bloodstains on his clothes, next to the steps of an opera house about 500 metres (yards) away. The suspected attacker was from Pakistan, and had arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. "We are…
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“Never-ending nightmare”: Violence returns to Paris street where Charlie Hebdo was attacked

“Never-ending nightmare”: Violence returns to Paris street where Charlie Hebdo was attacked

TANGI SALAUN THE stabbing of two people in Paris's rue Nicolas-Appert HAS brought violence back to the street where, five years ago, Islamist militants killed 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two journalists were wounded in Friday's attack in what Prime Minister Jean Castex said was a symbolic place, outside Charlie Hebdo's former offices. Bullet-holes in railings along the short street lined with apartments and offices bear the scars of the earlier attack, in which the assailants stormed Charlie Hebdo's offices on January 7, 2015. A mural on the street shows the faces of the 11…
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Charlie Hebdo attackers killed to avenge Prophet Mohammad, French court hears

Charlie Hebdo attackers killed to avenge Prophet Mohammad, French court hears

TANGI SALAUN THE Islamist gunmen who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago, killing 12 people, sought to avenge the Prophet Mohammad, a French court heard on Wednesday on the first day of the trial of more than a dozen alleged accomplices. Homegrown militants Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris, spraying gunfire, on January 7, 2015, nearly a decade after the weekly published cartoons mocking the Prophet. They paused to ensure then-editor Stephane Charbonnier was among the dead, the presiding judge said in a precis of the prosecution's case. In court, the magazine's editor,…
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