As Trial Begins in Paris for Charlie Hebdo Attack, the Magazine Republishes Cartoons of Mohammed

9/2/20

Je suis Charlie: Five years on

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Yesterday (Wednesday, 2 September 2020), the trial of fourteen people, accused of participating in the plot to attack the editorial offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015, begins in a Paris court. The fourteen men are charged with involvement in a series of deadly terrorist attacks in the city, which began in the offices of the magazine and ended at a kosher supermarket two days later.

Seventeen people were killed in the attacks.

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