Tried for “complicity in terrorist crimes” during the first trial of the attacks against “Charlie Hebdo” and Hyper Cacher, Ali Riza Polat was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment in December 2020.
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Ali Riza Polat was sentenced on Thursday, October 20, on appeal to life imprisonment for complicity in the seventeen 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. Professional magistrates sentenced the second defendant, Amar Ramdani, to thirteen years’ imprisonment, two-thirds of which were security.
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At the end of the first trial, which resulted in the convictions of the eleven 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. Amar Ramdani was retried at 41 for criminal terrorist association.
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