Peter Cherif is being tried for terrorism-related offences and the 2011 kidnapping of three French aid workers in Yemen.
A protester holds a sign in Istanbul, on September 13, 2020, during a protest against the reprinting of the cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad by the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, reprinted the controversial images to mark the beginning of the trial of the alleged accomplices in the attack.
He is being tried for terrorism-related offences allegedly committed between 2011 and 2018, and the 2011 kidnapping of three French aid workers in Yemen. According to several witnesses, AQAP advised foreign fighters in Yemen to return to their countries of origin to stage attacks. “We expect Peter Cherif to answer our questions in a way other than by quoting the Koran,” Charlie Hebdo’s lawyer Richard Malka told journalists ahead of the trial.
He was convicted in Baghdad in 2006 of illegally crossing the border and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He escaped to Syria in 2007.
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