Charlie Hebdo’s editor Laurent Sourisseau confirmed the publication is to reprint the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad ahead of the trial in a show of determination in the face of intolerance.
“We will never lie down. We will never give up,” he said of his decision to republish.
Among those charged are Hayat Boumedienne, Coulibaly’s partner at the time of the attacks, and brothers Mohamed and Mehdi Belhoucine. All three travelled to areas of Syria under Islamic State’s control days before the attacks and may be dead.
The trial will run for 10 weeks and be filmed throughout.
More than 250 people have been killed in France in Islamist violence since the attacks and countering the threat remains a government priority, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch placed Charlie Hebdo’s then-director on its “wanted list” after the weekly published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, including one of him in a bomb-shaped turban.
