Charlie Hebdo reprints Prophet Mohammed controversial cartoons as terror trial begins
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has reprinted cartoons of the Prophet before the trial of 14 people accused of helping the two terrorists carryout 2015 deadly attacks.
The trial of 13 men and a woman accused of providing the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo attacks with weapons and logistics marks the first-ever terror trial in France to be filmed.
It is set to get underway on Wednesday (September 2).
On its website, the Ministry of Justice states that for an audiovisual recording to be permitted at a public hearing, the trial must be of interest for France’s judicial history.
The January 2015 attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, police officers and a kosher supermarket in Paris saw 17 people killed over three days.
The front cover of the latest edition features the 12 original cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which were published in a Danish newspaper before appearing in Charlie Hebdo. One of the cartoons shows the prophet wearing a bomb instead of a turban. The French headline reads “Tout ça pour ça” (“All of that for this”).
