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Graphic video footage of a policeman being shot during a Paris terrorist attack has attracted criticism after it was broadcast repeatedly across European TV and the internet.Three masked gunmen wielding assault rifles stormed the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, shot 12 people dead and injured 11 more, four of them critically on Wednesday afternoon.

                                I am Charlie: People show solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attack. Photo: Getty Images


Four of the victims were the founding cartoonists of the magazine, which has previously received death threats and been firebombed for its provocative images depicting the prophet Muhammad. (Cartoons and images published by Charlie Hebdo can be viewed here. Warning: some readers may find the images offensive.)
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A short video clip of the event shows the terrifying moment the assailants approach a Paris police officer, lying wounded on the ground clutching his leg, before shooting him in the head at close range.Social media lit up in the hours following, with many questioning the repeated broadcast of the footage.
  Too many news organisations now showing online footage of killings at 
 #CharlieHebdo office but not the cartoons for which they were murdered — Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) 
 January 7, 2015

  Have we become so desensitised that we think it's okay to watch, let alone share, footage of a freakin execution? Not cool! 
 #CharlieHebdo — Jono Pech (@JonoHimself) 
 January 7, 2015

  It would be more appropriate if news media shied away from footage of wounded journalists and showed those 
 #CharlieHebdo cartoons. — Justin Lewis (@Mumbler3) 
 January 7, 2015
Many news sites and TV broadcasters have since censored or removed the footage.#JeSuisCharlie and #IamCharlie are two hashtags trending across the globe since the attack, while thousands have gathered in the streets across France for candlelit vigils.The Associated Press on Wednesday announced it would delete photos of the controversial magazine and its cartoons.The New York Daily News, the London-based Daily Telegraph and Getty Images have also removed or pixelated images featuring the cartoons.AP spokesman Paul Colford told BuzzFeed the official policy is to censor images in this instance. "None of the images distributed by AP showed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad," he said."It's been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images." Cartoonists across the world have shown their solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo newsroom through their art.Charlie Hebdo was started in 1970, after a former publication, Hara-Kiri, was banned for mocking the death of former French President Charles De Gaulle. The name Charlie Hebdo is a nod to the Peanuts cartoons featuring Charlie Brown. 
  A sad day for humanity, yet again. (Pic: Philippe Geluck FB page) 
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#CharlieHebdo
#IamCharlie
pic.twitter.com/8AVusdpK9T — Neha Gupta (@nehagupta2918) 
 January 7, 2015

  Can't sleep tonight, thoughts with my French cartooning colleagues, their families and loved ones 
 #CharlieHebdo
pic.twitter.com/LqIMRCHPgK — David Pope (@davpope) 
 January 7, 2015

  1003 words. 
 #CharlieHebdo More powerful cartoons here: 
 http://t.co/XvnV7Fw6zD
pic.twitter.com/IelWUUPta3 — 3AW Melbourne (@3AW693) 
 January 7, 2015


















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