Charlie Hebdo verdict: French court convicts 14 people over 2015 terror attacks
FRANCE24, 17 Dec 2020
A French court on Wednesday convicted 14 people of crimes ranging from financing terrorism to membership of a criminal gang in relation to Islamist attacks in 2015 against the #CharlieHebdo 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. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney tells us more.
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