During the trial, lawyer Patrick Klugman expressed concern that the antisemitic element behind the attacks had been absent as a factor in the indictment against the accused.

“Do you know how many times the word ‘’antisemitism’’ appears in the indictment order that comes before your court? How many times this word, which caused the crime in one of its most fundamental aspects, is mentioned in 271 pages? Only once!” the lawyer, who represented the relatives of the four Jews killed by an Islamist terrorist in the kosher supermarket, declared.

After a 3-month trial, a French court has found guilty 14 accomplices of French Islamist terrorists  behind the January 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

Among the 14 was Hayat Boumeddiene, former partner of Amedy Coulibaly who murdered a policewoman and, a day later, four  Jews, Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada and Philippe Braham, in the siege of a kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher on the Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris.

Boumeddiene was found guilty of financing terrorism and belonging to a criminal terrorist network. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison. She is thought to be alive and on the run from an international arrest warrant in Syria, where she joined the Islamic State terror group.

Armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, Coulibaly, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group, entered and attacked the people in the kosher food supermarket. “You are Jews and French, the two things I hate the most,” the terrorist told them.He murdered the four Jewish hostages and held fifteen other hostages during that police ended by storming the store and killing Coulibaly.

Another of the three accomplices tried in absentia, Ali Riza Polat, a 35-year-old French-Turkish friend of Coulibaly’s, whom prosecutors described as his “right-hand man”, was also sentenced to 30 years in prison. Other sentences ranged upwards from four years.

Coulibaly  was himself an associate of the gunmen behind the gruesome massacre that killed 12 people at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015.

The accomplices were found guilty on different charges, ranging from membership of a criminal network to complicity in the attacks.

The French government has recently introduced legislation to tackle radical Islamist activity in France.

Lawyer Patrick Klugman expressed dismay at the absence of the antisemitic element in the trial indictment

After the verdicts were announced, Patrick Klugman — a lawyer representing relatives of the victims of the Hyper Cacher massacre — tweeted: “3 days of terror, many victims, 5 years of waiting, 4 months of trial … suffering, forgetting, other attacks, more deaths, and then, a feeling after being heard: justice, finally!”

During the trial, Klugman expressed concern that the antisemitic element behind the attacks had been absent as a factor in the indictment against the accused.

“Do you know how many times the word ‘’antisemitism’’ appears in the indictment order that comes before your court? How many times this word, which caused the crime in one of its most fundamental aspects, is mentioned in 271 pages? Only once!” the lawyer declared.

Describing France as a country “where we target and kill Jews with disconcerting ease,” Klugman noted a “nauseating” pattern of officials doubting the antisemitic motives behind the numerous violent assaults on French Jews over the last 20 years.

“In this case, antisemitism is everywhere,” Klugman, a former president of the French Union of Jewish students, said.

He emphasized that the Islamist hatred of Jews was on display not only at the Hyper Cacher supermarket but during the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Klugman reminded the court that Michel Catalano — a printer who was held hostage by the Kouachi brothers, who attacked the magazine — had said in his testimony that the first question the terrorists had asked him was whether he was a Jew.

“Weeping, Michel Catalno confided to you that, if he had answered in the affirmative, he would have died,” Klugman said.