These attacks, which targeted freedom of expression, law enforcement and the Jewish community, killed 17 people and created an electric shock in France.
The prosecution requested this Tuesday, October 18 twenty years of criminal imprisonment against Amar Ramdani, one of the two defendants retried on appeal for their alleged role in the jihadist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher in January 2015. The public prosecutor will make his submissions against the main defendant, Ali Riza Polat, in the afternoon.
In the first part of this two-voice indictment, Advocate General Delphine Thibierge asked the Special Assize Court of Paris, which has been retrying the case since September 12, to sentence Amar Ramdani to twenty years’ imprisonment with a two-thirds security period.
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“Decisive logistical support”
At first instance, in December 2020, the judges went beyond the requisitions of seventeen years’ imprisonment requested against Amar Ramdani, and sentenced him to twenty years in prison for criminal terrorist association.
For the representative of the general prosecutor’s office, Amar Ramdani, 41, brought a “critical logistical support” to Amedy Coulibaly, by providing him with the weapons that “used to kill» Municipal policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge and four men in a Hyper Cacher supermarket in eastern Paris, January 8 and 9, 2015.
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Amar Ramdani also provided, according to the prosecution, “financial supportto Amedy Coulibaly, with whom he had been detained in the Villepinte remand center (Seine-Saint-Denis) and of which he had become the “privileged correspondentbefore the attacks. Given this “proximity“, Amar Ramdani does not “could ignore» the nature of the project of Amedy Coulibaly, who had coordinated his attacks with the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, authors of the massacre at the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, said the Advocate General.
These attacks, which targeted freedom of expression, law enforcement and the Jewish community, killed 17 people and created an electric shock in France. As he had done during the first trial two years ago, Amar Ramdani reiterated during the proceedings that he had “nothing to see» with the attacks and the «terrorism“, denying having provided any assistance.
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His co-defendant, Ali Riza Polat, faces life imprisonment for complicity in the terrorist assassinations committed by the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly. The verdict is expected Thursday evening.
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