French jihadist linked to Charlie Hebdo attackers jailed for life
Peter Cherif, a suspected French jihadist who was close to the perpetrators of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Cherif fought for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen from 2011 to 2018, during which he was suspected of training his childhood friend in Paris, Cherif Kouachi, who along with his brother Said carried out the massacre on January 7, 2015 in the satirical weekly in the French capital.
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