More than five years after the terrorist attack on a Christmas market in the north-eastern French city of Strasbourg, four suspected accomplices of the perpetrator will stand trial before a jury court in Paris from Thursday. Five people were killed and 11 others injured in the attack. The defendants are alleged to have helped with the procurement of weapons. The Islamist Chérif Chekatt, 29, attacked people with a firearm and a large knife in alleyways and squares of the Alsatian city in the pre-Christmas hustle and bustle on the evening of December 11, 2018. He initially managed to escape in a…