France, March 24 -- The appeal trial of Audrey Mondjehi, accused of helping supply the firearm used in the 2018 Strasbourg Christmas market attack, opened on Monday before the Special Criminal Court of Appeal in Paris.

Mondjehi, now 44, is contesting the 30-year prison sentence handed down in 2024, which includes a mandatory minimum term of two-thirds of the sentence during which no early release is possible. He faces life imprisonment if found guilty on appeal.

The case revisits one of France's most shocking recent terrorist attacks, in which gunman Cherif Chekatt killed five people and injured eleven others before being shot dead by police after a two-day manhunt.

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