(Photo: Reuters) Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, members of her government and journalists from the magazine were in attendance, as the names of the victims were read out. On January 7th, 2015, two French-born brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi opened fire, killing 11 people inside the building as well as a Muslim policeman outside, and injuring 11 others. The assault profoundly shocked France and marked the beginning of a series of jihadist attacks that have claimed 241 lives in total, according to AFP. “We must never forget these terrible days,” Francois Hollande, President at the time of the attacks, wrote on Facebook, while saying France could be “proud” of its reaction to the bloodshed. The magazine pays between USD1.2-1.8 million in security costs annually to protect its offices which are at a secret location, its editor Riss wrote./.
Long queues have formed at newsstands in France for the latest edition of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Five million copies are being printed - a week after Islamist gunmen murdered eight journalists at the magazine and four other people in Paris. The cover shows a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad weeping while holding a sign saying "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie"). It is believed earlier cartoons of the Prophet prompted the attack. The slogan "Je suis Charlie" has been widely used following the shootings. In a separate attack in Paris two days later, four Jewish men died after an…... [read more]
Thesame day, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minhalso offered condolences to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. On January 7, three gunmen attacked Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters, shooting dead 12 people and injuring many others. At the Foreign Ministry’s regular press conference in Hanoi on January8, Deputy Spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said the attack is brutal andunacceptable when responding to a question on the country’s viewpoint onthe attack. She stated Vietnam condemns terror activities in any form. Vietnamsends deep condolences to the French Government, people and bereavedfamilies and believes that the instigators will soon be severelypunished, she added.-VNA... [read more]
WASHINGTON: The two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had been on a US terror watch list "for years," a US law enforcement official said Thursday (Jan 8).Cherif and Said Kouachi, who are believed to have shot dead 12 people on Wednesday in the magazine's Paris headquarters, had been "on our watch list for years," the official told AFP. The brothers, who were still on the run late Thursday, were both flagged in a US database as terror suspects, and also on the no-fly list, meaning they were barred from flying into…... [read more]
PARIS: Elite French security forces deployed helicopters in a night-time manhunt on Thursday (Jan 8) for the two brothers accused of slaughtering 12 people in an attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.Hundreds of armed police and paramilitary forces combed through an area in the Aisne region near where the fugitives had earlier robbed a petrol station and abandoned their getaway car.The gunmen were thought to be behind Wednesday's bloodbath at Charlie Hebdo magazine, the worst terrorist attack in France for half a century, which they said was revenge for the weekly's repeated publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet…... [read more]
A Turkish weekly is fronted with "Je Suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) at a store in Istanbul, Turkey. PARIS: Charlie Hebdo made a defiant return on Wednesday (Jan 14) with a new issue that sold out across France in record time, as Al-Qaeda posted a video claiming last week's deadly attack on its cartoonists.The satirical magazine once again featured the Prophet Mohammed on its cover - but with a tear in his eye, holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign under the headline "All is forgiven".After many Parisians joined long queues outside newspaper kiosks in the pre-dawn cold to get their…... [read more]
