10 terror suspects on trial in France
PARIS -- Ten people have gone on trial in Paris for alleged links to the financing of a jihadist movement that the UN Security Council considers an affiliate of al-Qaida.
The trial that began yesterday comes four years after the suspects, mostly Turkish-speaking, were rounded up in a police sweep in France, Germany and the Netherlands.
The defendants are suspected of collecting funds for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the UN listed as an al-Qaida affiliate just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The trial, the first-ever concerning the IMU in a Paris court according to the presiding judge, was expected to detail funding in the global jihadist movement.
Speaking to The Associated Press, lawyers for two of the defendants denied the charges against their clients, insisting the money collected was for "humanitarian" uses such as for buying sheep for slaughter for the Muslim festival of Eid.
-- The Associated Press
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