The appeals process over the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo editorial office and the Hyper Cacher supermarket in January 2015 opened on Monday, more than seven years after the terrorist acts.
Two of the co-perpetrators are on trial in Paris for their jihadist attack, in the presence of some of their victims. They are 37-year-old Franco-Turkish national Ali Riza Polat and 41-year-old Algerian Amar Ramdani. A lower court found them guilty in late 2020 for supporting the perpetrators of the attacks between 7 and 9 January 2015.
During the January 2015 terror attacks, three men, brothers Said and Chérif Kouachi, and Amedy Coulibaly, killed 17 people. They only stopped when they were killed in a major police intervention.
Polat denied from the first interrogation that he had anything to do with terrorism and promised to lay everything on the table. He is said to have helped the perpetrators find weapons and to have drawn up the plans.
Ramdani was a friend of Coulibaly and allegedly supplied him with a weapon.
About eighty persons have been called to testify, including other accomplices of the two. The trial will last until 13 November 13.
