the main defendant, Ali Riza Polat, sentenced on appeal to life imprisonment for complicity in the 17 murders committed

Ali Riza Polat was sentenced on Thursday, October 20, on appeal to life imprisonment for complicity in the 17 murders perpetrated by the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly in January 2015 at the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, in Montrouge and at the Hyper Cacher. The special assize court of Paris has combined this sentence with a security period of twenty years. This is the sentence that had been requested by the public prosecutor. At first instance, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

>> Who are the fourteen accused in the trial of the January 2015 attacks?

At the end of the first trial, which resulted in the convictions of the 11 defendants present with sentences ranging from four years’ imprisonment to thirty years’ imprisonment, only Ali Riza Polat and Amar Ramdani, the most heavily sentenced, had calls. Both, to different degrees, were accused of having provided logistical assistance, particularly in the search for weapons, to the Kouachi brothers and to Amedy Coulibaly.

Amar Ramdani was retried for criminal terrorist association. This former prisoner of Amedy Coulibaly was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison with a two-thirds security sentence. The public prosecutor had requested 20 years in prison. At first instance, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.