The Special Criminal Court in Paris on Thursday sentenced French jihadist Peter Sharif to life imprisonment for his links to Al-Qaeda and the Charlie Hebdo attack.

The French judiciary on Thursday issued a life imprisonment sentence against French jihadist Peter Sharif for his association with Al-Qaeda and the Charlie Hebdo attack.

His trial began at the beginning of 2011, but he fled to Yemen via Tunisia and Oman before a ruling was issued condemning him to five years in prison.

Peter Sharif spent seven years in Yemen, then moved to Djibouti in 2018 with his wife, who later died, and his two children. He was arrested three months later and then extradited to France.

According to the accusations, Sharif met in Yemen with the Yemeni preacher who holds American citizenship, Anwar al-Awlaki, the leader of “Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” who claimed responsibility for the attack on the headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and was assassinated in a raid carried out by an American march in 2011.< /p>