Trial begins of 14 suspected accomplices to gunmen who attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015
Hearings began under heavy security as eleven of the suspects appeared in the courtroom, facing charges of conspiracy in a terrorist act or association with a terror group. The
charges also include financing terrorism, membership in a terrorist organisation and supplying weapons to the attackers. The defendants under trial but not in the courtroom include Hayat Boumedienne, Coulibaly's partner at the time of the attacks, and brothers Mohamed and Mehdi Belhoucine. All three travelled to areas of Syria under Daesh control days before the attacks and may be dead.
Security officers wearing balaclavas and bullet-proof vests took up positions, before defendants were brought in to the room.More than 250 people have been killed in France in militant violence since the attacks, which laid bare France's struggle to counter the threat of homegrown militants and foreign militants.
On the trial's eve, President Emmanuel Macron said France would remember the slain. The freedom to blaspheme went in hand in hand with the freedom of belief in France, he continued.
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