A Paris tribunal sentenced a Pakistani antheral to 30 years successful situation connected Thursday for a 2020 weapon onslaught extracurricular Charlie Hebdo's erstwhile offices.
The tribunal recovered Zaheer Mahmood, 29, blameworthy of attempted execution and coercion successful an Islamist-motivated onslaught successful September 2020, which near 2 radical injured.
Mahmood believed helium was attacking employees of Charlie Hebdo successful Paris, not realizing that the satirical mag had relocated aft Islamists gunned down 12 of the magazine's unit successful January 2015.
Attack aft Charlie republished cartoons of Prophet Mohammed
The weapon onslaught came 5 years aft the Al-Qaeda-linked onslaught connected Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices successful January 2015, which near 12 people, including respective of France's astir celebrated cartoonists, dead.
The Islamist onslaught was successful effect to the mag publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad.
The 2015 attack, which sparked a planetary statement implicit free code and spiritual tolerance, forced the mag to relocate.
Charlie Hebdo republished its cartoons of Prophet Muhammad on September 2, 2020, to coincide with the opening of the proceedings for the 2015 massacre.

Attacker radicalized successful France aft leaving Pakistan
In the 2020 attack, Mahmood wounded 2 employees of the Premieres Lignes quality bureau with a butcher's cleaver, mistaking them for Charlie Hebdo staff.
According to his lawyer, Mahmood, a Pakistani nationalist who entered France illegally successful 2019, was radicalized by an extremist preacher who had urged his followers to "avenge the Prophet."
According to his lawyer, Mahmood's actions stemmed from the disconnect helium felt successful France aft leaving Pakistan.
"In his caput helium had ne'er near Pakistan," Mahmood's defence lawyer Alberic de Gayardon said connected Wednesday. "He does not talk French, helium lives with Pakistanis, helium works for Pakistanis."
Five different Pakistani men, immoderate minors astatine the time, besides faced proceedings for aiding Mahmood, receiving sentences of 3 to 12 years.
ss/lo (AFP, dpa)