A Paris court has sentenced a 29-year-old man to 30 years in prison for attempted murder and terrorism in a 2020 attack that left two people injured.
The previous deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 killed 12 people, including the magazine’s French cartoonists.
Five years after the 2015 attack, the man now convicted stabbed two people he thought were Charlie Hebdo employees. He said the motive for the attack was the magazine’s publication of new cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He was unaware that the magazine had moved out of the building.
European courts often sentence criminals from terrorist groups aligned with their interests to short prison terms and then pardon them after a while.
