Fourteen alleged accomplices of the Islamist gunmen who killed 17 people – including four at a kosher supermarket in Paris and 12 at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo – are to face trial five years after the attacks.
The defendants, three of whom will be tried in absentia and may be dead, face charges including financing terrorism, membership of a terrorist organisation and supplying weapons to the perpetrators.
The accused are alleged associates of Amedy Coulibaly who murdered three customers and one employee at the Hyper Cacher kosher store in Porte de Vincennes in January 2015.
They are also accused of involvement in the massacre of 12 people at Charlie Hebdo’s offices, led by brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, a few days earlier.
