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A guard stands outside the courthouse in Paris

Appeal trial opens for suspects of Charlie Hebdo attack

The appeal trial opened in Paris today for two men suspected of helping the gunmen who stormed the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015.

Europe • 12 Sep 22

Seventeen people were killed over three days of attacks in January 2015

Man sentenced to 30 years over Charlie Hebdo killings

A French court has jailed for 30 years the main accused present for the trial over the 2015 killings at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris, stopping short of the life term demanded by the prosecution.

Europe • 16 Dec 20

French security and medical workers on site after the attack in front of the former Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris

Journalists stabbed near Charlie Hebdo's former offices

France has opened an anti-terror investigation after two journalists were stabbed in Paris today near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that was attacked by Islamist militants in 2015.

World • 25 Sep 20

12 people were killed in the attack at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's former office

Alleged accomplices on trial over Charlie Hebdo attack

Fourteen alleged accomplices to the Islamist gunmen who attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have gone on trial.

Europe • 02 Sep 20

A tribute in Paris to staff members at Charlie Hebdo killed in January 2015

Charlie Hebdo republishes cartoons for trial start

French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the target of an attack by Islamist gunmen in 2015, has said it is republishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to mark the start of the trial this week of alleged accomplices in the attack.

Europe • 01 Sep 20

12 people were killed at the offices of the satirical paper Charlie Hebdo in 2015

Paris Charlie Hebdo attack trial put back to September

The trial of 14 people accused of aiding jihadist gunmen who targeted the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and other Paris targets in January 2015 has been postponed until September.

Europe • 31 Mar 20

French student Mourad Hamyd, 20, was sent back to France from Bulgaria yesterday

Relative of Hebdo killer held over terror links

The brother-in-law of one of the jihadists who attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last year faces terrorism charges for allegedly trying to join so-called Islamic State fighters in Syria, a judicial source said.

News • 28 Aug 16

People gather to honour the victims of the terrorist attacks in 2015, at the Place de la Republique in Paris

France pays tribute to victims of terror attacks

France honoured the victims of Islamist militant attacks last year in a ceremony in Paris today.

News • 10 Jan 16

French President Francois Hollande (C, back to camera) and the mayor of Montrouge, Jean-Loup Metton (R), lay a wreath of flowers honouring policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe, in Montrouge, south of Paris

France remembers victims killed at kosher market

France has paid homage to four Jewish hostages killed at a kosher supermarket in Paris - a year after a spate of jihadist attacks.

News • 09 Jan 16

Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi pictured on the tv screens was killed with his son and other fighters

Charlie Hebdo attacks mastermind killed by drone

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has said that a US air strike had killed the senior figure who issued the group's claim of responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.

News • 07 May 15

Garland police blocked a street following the gun attack

Muhammad cartoon event gunmen were roommates

The two gunmen shot dead when they attempted to attack an anti-Muslim cartoon exhibition have been identified as roommates from Arizona, one of them a suspected jihadist.

News • 29 May 15

Queen's University said the decision was because a risk assessment had not been completed

Queen's criticised over Hebdo conference decision

Queen’s University has faced criticism for cancelling a planned conference on the Charlie Hebdo killings.

News • 22 Apr 15

Millions of copies of Charlie Hebdo were distributed the week after the shootings

1,500 copies of Charlie Hebdo arrive in Ireland

Copies of the Charlie Hebdo magazine were distributed last night to around 120 retailers in Ireland.

News • 27 Jan 15

Cherif Kouachi (left) and his brother Said killed 12 people in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine

Cherif Kouachi buried in unmarked grave

Cherif Kouachi, one of the two brothers who killed 12 people in an attack on France's Charlie Hebdo magazine, has been buried in an unmarked grave near Paris under tight security.

News • 18 Jan 15

There have been widespread protests about the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad

Five killed in Niger anti-Charlie Hebdo protests

Violence has broken out in Niger's capital Niamey at protests against French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

News • 17 Jan 15

David Cameron and Barack Obama at their Washington press conference

US and UK set up new group to fight extremism

The United States and Britain are to establish a new joint group to counter the rise of violent extremism in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

News • 16 Jan 15

French vendors say the latest edition sold out within minutes this morning

Irish retailers order latest Charlie Hebdo edition

Distributors have said almost 1,900 copies of the latest edition of the Charlie Hebdo magazine have been ordered by 120 retailers in Ireland.

News • 15 Jan 15

The video said the group's leadership ordered the attack for insults against the Prophet Mohammad

Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for French attack

Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

News • 14 Jan 15

Millions have marched in France in support of Charlie Hebdo and freedom of expression

Funerals held for Paris terror attack victims

Funeral ceremonies have taken place for seven of the victims who were killed in last week's terror attacks in Paris.

News • 13 Jan 15

An image from the video which purports to show Amedy Coulibaly

IS video appears to show supermarket terrorist

A man resembling Amedy Coulibaly, who shot a policewoman and took hostages at a supermarket in the Paris has claimed to be a member of the Islamic State group in a posthumous video released online this morning.

News • 11 Jan 15

Tributes to the 12 victims of Wednesday's attack in Paris

France at war with terror, not religion - PM

France is at "war" with terrorism, but not religion, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said as police cornered two suspected gunmen near Paris.

News • 09 Jan 15

Cherif and Said Kouachi were raised in care homes

Paris suspects reportedly radicalised by cleric

The brothers believed to have massacred 12 people in Paris were poverty-stricken orphans set on the path to terrorism by a radical preacher.

News • 09 Jan 15

Police evacuate people from businesses close to the kosher store

French police storm two hostage sites

Four hostages and a gunman have been killed after a siege in eastern Paris ended with a police assault, while brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi were shot dead after a siege north of Paris.

News • 10 Jan 15

Stephane Charbonnier and Jean Cabut died in the shooting

The 12 who died at Charlie Hebdo

Five cartoonists were among the victims of yesterday's attack in Paris, as well as three contributors, a guest at the magazine's editorial conference and a maintenance worker.

News • 09 Jan 15

French police stand at a check point during the manhunt near Villers Cotterets, northeast of Paris

French security forces deployed in manhunt

French security forces are deployed in a northern town where two brothers suspected of having killed 12 people in the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo abandoned their car.

News • 08 Jan 15