Ali Reza Polat, who was sentenced to life imprisonment on appeal for complicity in the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher in January 2015, filed an appeal with the Court of Cassation, this Thursday, October 27, we learned from his lawyers.
“He filed a cassation appealMs. Moad Nefati and Rachid Madid told AFP. On October 20, after six weeks of hearings, the 37-year-old Franco-Turk was sentenced to life imprisonment with a twenty-year security period by the special court of Paris.
Guilty of complicity
He was found guilty of the seventeen murders carried out between 7 and 9 January 2015 by the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly at the Charlie Hebdo editorial office in Montreux and Hyper Cacher.
“There is no doubt for the court (…) that Ali Reza Polat was indeed guilty, (…) with full knowledge of the facts, of complicity in the terrorist acts carried out in concert by the Quachi brothers. Amed Coulibaly, providing constant assistance to the latter in preparing his actions and collecting funds to carry them out;“, prompted the judges.
In December 2020, the court of first instance did not follow the demands of the prosecution and sentenced Ali Reza Polat to thirty years in prison. The latter, who always claimed that he “not a terrorist“, he complained.
Retried alongside Ali Reza Polat and sentenced to thirteen years in prison, including two-thirds security, for supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, Amar Ramdani did not appeal the appeal. The prosecution demanded a twenty-year prison sentence against him.
Source: Le Figaro
