Defendants in Charlie Hebdo case found guilty of complicity to commit terrorist acts

By Spencer Neale

Published December 16, 2020 9:39pm ET

Defendants in Charlie Hebdo case found guilty of complicity to commit terrorist acts — Plaintiffs' lawyer Mehana Mouhou, center, answers reporters after the verdict in the January 2015 Paris attacks trial, Wednesday, Dec.16, 2020 in Paris. The fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman and a man described as his logistician on Wednesday were convicted of terrorism charges in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 attacks in Paris against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket. The verdict ends the three-month trial linked to the three days of killings across Paris claimed jointly by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Fourteen people were found guilty of assisting in carrying out of a series of deadly terrorist attacks across Paris in early 2015.

A Paris court sentenced Ali Riza Polat to 30 years in jail and handed similar sentences to the other 13 people involved in the organization of violent attacks that left 12 dead at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper that published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.