Suspect in Charlie Hebdo attack gets life sentence on appeal

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 22, 2022 12:03 am

Paris, France: A man accused of helping find weapons for the jihadist gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in France eight years ago was given a life sentence after his appeal trial, a judicial source said Thursday (Friday in Manila).

Ali Riza Polat, 37, who contests the charges of complicity in a terrorist attack, was originally handed a 30-year sentence in December 2020.

This courtroom sketch made on Dec. 14, 2020 shows Ali Riza Polat (center), who is believed to have been the right-hand man of Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a police officer in January 2015 and the next day shot dead four people at a Jewish supermarket, speaking in front of others defendants at Paris' courthouse during the trial of 14 people suspected of being accomplices in the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher jihadist killings. AFP PHOTO

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