Fourteen suspected accomplices to the French Islamist terrorists behind the 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris will go on trial next Wednesday, September 2.
Seventeen people were killed during three days of bloodshed that marked the beginning of a wave of Islamist violence that was to leave scores more dead.
The alleged accomplices have been charged with crimes including supplying weapons, membership of a terrorist organization, and financing terrorism.
Of the 14 defendants, three will be tried in absentia and may be dead. Among those in the dock will be Ali Riza Polat, who investigators allege helped attackers amass their weapons and munitions. He faces life in jail if found guilty.
The killings sparked global outrage against attacks on freedom of the press, with sympathizers embracing the slogan "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie).
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