France is just now beginning to recover after the worst security crises in the last decades after Paris and its surrounded areas saw three days of terror.
It began with a mass killing at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and ended two days later after a massive special forces operation.
On 7 January two gunmen, later identified as brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices chanting “God is Great” and “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammed” in Arabic, leaving twelve people dead, five of which were Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.
As the gunmen were leaving the building, the French police arrived and they exchanged fire but the attackers managed to escape the police forces. The next day a policewoman was killed by another gunman. It later emerged that the two attacks were connected.
On the third day, a terrorist seized a Jewish grocery store and killed four hostages before he was killed by police forces.
The suggested motive behind the brutal attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices was the fact that the magazine had depicted and satirised the Prophet Muhammed, the main religious figure in Islam.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that it had been planned for years. However, the terrorist group did not claim responsibility for the attack at the kosher grocery store.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
The attacks in France sparked an international unification movement, as people from around the world reacted to the attacks joined France in its mourning, either by holding signs with the slogan “I am Charlie”, or by rising pens in the air to symbolise their unity for freedom of speech.
Last Sunday, five days after the attacks, almost 4 million people marched throughout France in anti-terrorism rallies. World leaders such as British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also attended. According to French officials it was the largest gathering in the country’s history.
Charlie Hebdo’s new edition came out a week after the brutal attacks, selling all 3 million copies very quickly.
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The cover depicts Prophet Muhammed shedding a tear and holding a sign saying: “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) to remember the dead journalists.
The headline says: “All is forgotten”.
Charlie Hebdo: Two weeks on | The Rabbit Newspaper
France is just now beginning to recover after the worst security crises in the last decades after Paris and its surrounded areas saw three days of terror.
It began with a mass killing at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and ended two days later after a massive special forces operation.
On 7 January two gunmen, later identified as brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices chanting “God is Great” and “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammed” in Arabic, leaving twelve people dead, five of which were Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.
As the gunmen were leaving the building, the French police arrived and they exchanged fire but the attackers managed to escape the police forces. The next day a policewoman was killed by another gunman. It later emerged that the two attacks were connected.
On the third day, a terrorist seized a Jewish grocery store and killed four hostages before he was killed by police forces.
The suggested motive behind the brutal attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices was the fact that the magazine had depicted and satirised the Prophet Muhammed, the main religious figure in Islam.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that it had been planned for years. However, the terrorist group did not claim responsibility for the attack at the kosher grocery store.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
The attacks in France sparked an international unification movement, as people from around the world reacted to the attacks joined France in its mourning, either by holding signs with the slogan “I am Charlie”, or by rising pens in the air to symbolise their unity for freedom of speech.
Last Sunday, five days after the attacks, almost 4 million people marched throughout France in anti-terrorism rallies. World leaders such as British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also attended. According to French officials it was the largest gathering in the country’s history.
Charlie Hebdo’s new edition came out a week after the brutal attacks, selling all 3 million copies very quickly.
GETTY
The cover depicts Prophet Muhammed shedding a tear and holding a sign saying: “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) to remember the dead journalists.
The headline says: “All is forgotten”.