Ali Riza Polat, 37, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday, while the second accused, Amar Ramdani, was sentenced to 13 years in prison. The two men had denied the allegations against them.
17 people were killed in the Islamist attacks in January 2015, including France’s best-known cartoonists, four French Jews and a policewoman. The three perpetrators were shot dead by the police.
Polat was found guilty of helping to prepare the supermarket bombing. He hails from the same Paris suburb as the perpetrator, Amedy Coulibaly. According to the court, the 41-year-old Ramdani had procured weapons for Coulibaly, whom he had met in prison, and helped finance the attack.
There were about 300 joint plaintiffs at the trial. Of the nine men convicted at first instance, only Polat and Ramdani appealed. The two had been sentenced to 30 and 20 years in prison in the first instance.
Source: Nachrichten
