It was billed as a trial for the history books. Now that the verdict is in for the Charlie Hebdo trial, is France closer to or further from closure? We ask about sentences for accomplices of the radicals who, nearly six years ago, targeted the satirical weekly and a kosher supermarket in Paris. For over three months, while the court heard sometimes gut-wrenching testimony... outside, there were new attacks, triggered by Charlie Hebdo's republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed: the beheading of a middle school teacher, the knife attack against a church in Nice.
In 2015, the whole world rallied around France with the slogan "Je suis Charlie" – "I am Charlie" – and the promise to tackle radicalisation. We promised to raise consciousness about "le vivre-ensemble", living together with our differences. Instead, after all the other terror attacks that followed, French public opinion seems more entrenched. But how much? And what next?
>> Hayat Boumeddiene, widow of one of January 2015 Paris attackers, sentenced to 30 years in prison
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Imen Mellaz.
