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Strasbourg terror suspects in court over deadly 2018 Christmas attack

French police in central Strasbourg seraching for the suspect of a shooting in which five people were killed at a Christmas market in the city in December 2018. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

The trial of four men suspected of having played a key role in supplying weapons to the perpetrator of the December 2018 shootings at the Strasbourg Christmas markets began on Thursday, with court hearings set to continue for five weeks.

The men appeared in a special Paris court over the attack in the eastern French city, where a radical Islamist killed five people before being shot dead by police after a 48-hour manhunt.

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