The accused were sentenced to between four years and life imprisonment for their roles in the 2015 attacks on a kosher supermarket and the magazine that killed 17 people.
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The Politics of Terrorism in a Combustible Europe
Austria and France both suffered deadly attacks in recent weeks. The responses offer a glimpse of the political shape-shifting around Europe’s complex relationship with Islam.
In the Netherlands, a Cartoon in School Leads to Online Threats and an Arrest
Threats against a high school teacher who displayed a political cartoon that supported the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have alarmed Dutch officials.
France’s Hardening Defense of Cartoons of Muhammad Could Lead to ‘a Trap’
Once denounced by French leaders, the images are now defended across the political spectrum, widening a divide with Muslim nations and leaving many French Muslims alienated.
France, Waging a Crackdown, Honors a Teacher and Depicts a Plot in Beheading
Two teenagers were paid about $350 to identify a teacher later decapitated outside his school. As the nation mourns, officials move against what they see as militant Islam.
Suspect Stalked French School Before Beheading Teacher, Officials Say
The suspect, a Russian immigrant, was angered by a classroom display of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and sought help identifying the teacher involved.
At Trial, Jewish Victims of 2015 Paris Attack Ask: Why the Hatred?
Four people were killed by a hostage-taker at a kosher supermarket that year. Families and survivors who testified this past week said his callous anti-Semitism was still hard to process.
Paris Knife Attack: 2 Wounded Near Charlie Hebdo’s Former Office
French authorities labeled the attack as “Islamist terrorism” because of its location and timing — as a trial is underway over the massacre at the satirical newspaper in 2015.
For Survivors at Charlie Hebdo Trial, Wounds Are Still Raw
Victims of the 2015 attack on the satirical weekly took the stand this week with vivid accounts of how their colleagues were killed — and how their own lives were suddenly overturned.
Charlie Hebdo Trial Opens in Paris
With the main perpetrators dead, the court will focus on those accused of aiding the assaults on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher supermarket that killed 17.