At the January 2015 appeals trial for the attacks, Ali Riza Polat maintains his innocence.

Only two left in the box. Ali Riza Polat, 37, petite, plump in her pink shirt, with a pale face and close-cropped hair; Amar Ramdan, 41, tall, athletic, gray hair and beard, dark skin, wearing a purple T-shirt. January 2015 attacks appeal trial Charlie HebdoVincennes and Montrouge’s Hyper Cacher opened on Monday, September 12 before a specially created Paris Court of Appeal.

On the first day, the Salle Voltaire of the courthouse on the Île de la Cité was full, even with the departure of several civil parties, except for the cartoonist Rhys, the director of the publication. Charlie Hebdo and wounded in the attack, ex-columnist Sigolène Vinson, a survivor, or ex-hostages Lassanna Batille (in Hyper Catcher) and Michel Catalano (in his print work in Dammartin-en-Goële, Seine-et-Marne, where the Kouachi brothers, two terrorists took refuge chapter).

But since the second day of hearings, the sparse benches have suggested a form of exhaustion after the first-instance trial, as well as an effort tragically marked by three attacks carried out in the fall of 2020 in the name of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Published by a satirical weekly – an attack near a former building on rue Nicolas-Appert in Paris. Charlie HebdoThe assassination of Professor Samuel Petty at Eragne in the Val d’Oise, the knife attack at Notre Dame, Nice).

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We will again have to watch horror footage, attend the presentation of judicial police officers, listen to the pain of civil parties willing to testify. Replay this three-day killing spree, from January 7 to 9, 2015, during which the brothers Said and Sherif Kouachi and Amed Coulibaly killed seventeen people, journalists, cartoonists, police officers, members of the Jewish community and ordinary bystanders. and many others were injured.

He was sentenced to thirty years in prison for “complicity in terrorist murders” and twenty years in prison, respectively. “Criminal Terrorist Conspiracy”, Ali Riza Polat and Amar Ramdan are the only ones convicted – out of a total of fourteen – at the Court of First Instance to appeal. They are also the two who received the heaviest punishment. But as much as the first is a fighter, coiled like a pendulum, as much as the second seems elsewhere, overwhelmed by years spent in prison.