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Christmas Market Attack Plotter Jailed For 30 Years By French Court

Cherif Chekatt killed five people, including a Thai tourist and an Italian journalist, and wounded 11 people at the Christmas market (Credit: AFP)

A French court on Wednesday sentenced Audrey Mondjehi to a 30-year jail term for helping an Islamist militant who killed five people in a 2018 attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg.

The 42-year-old was the main defendant among four accused of helping Islamist militant Cherif Chekatt, who shot and stabbed shoppers at the market and was killed by police after a 48-hour manhunt.

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