In a landmark judgment, a French court convicted 14 people on Wednesday for the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre. In a series of terror attacks that shook the nation, 17 people were murdered in an extremist attack on the French satirical newspaper’s office in Paris. Charlie Hebdo lost 9 employees in the attacks that took place over three days. All three assailants were killed in police shootouts and accomplices were arrested.
The trial found the defendants guilty of membership of a criminal network and complicity in the attacks among other charges. However, terrorism-related charges were dropped for some defendants who were found guilty of lesser crimes.