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Charlie Hebdo print run raised to 5m as copies in France sell out









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People in Paris queue at news stands with the aim of buying satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s first issue to be published after the attack on its offices



Matthew Weaver


Wednesday 14 January 2015 08.28 EST







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The planned print run of the first Charlie Hebdo magazine since last week’s deadly terrorist attack has been increased to 5m as many newsagents in France sold out of stocks within minutes of it going on sale.
“The publisher has decided this morning to bring the print run to 5m,” Véronique Faujour, president of the distributor MLP, told AFP. The figure is 2m more than had been expected.
Large queues formed outside French magazine kiosks as the first edition since the attack on the magazine’s office killed 12 went on sale.
Some outlets reported that hundreds of copies of the magazine were sold in the first few minutes of going on sale by customers eager to show support for free speech following the attack.



The new edition of Charlie Hebdo goes on sale in Paris, France.
Photograph: Nicolas Messyasz/SIPA/Rex


Despite an initial planned print run of up to 3m copies, including versions in six different languages, many people struggled to get hold of the first copies of a magazine that usually has a circulation of only 60,000.
The Guardian’s Anne Penketh said her local newsagent in Paris was so inundated with customers wanting copies of Charlie Hebdo that he hid them and sold copies only to regulars.
She said: “While I was there, a couple of people stopped by and asked for a copy, but [the newsagent] said he didn’t have any. He then stooped down and put my copy inside Le Figaro so nobody would see. He says he’s never seen anything like it.”



Long pre-dawn queues of people were seen at many magazine kiosks across Paris including at Gare du Nord, where dozens of people lined up before 6am.
French journalist Agnès Poirier reported queues at two newsagents in a small town in Brittany where she is based. “I’ve never seen that many people queue for a newsagents to open,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“I couldn’t get a copy myself because there were too many people, but in a show of generosity the people who got their copies shared with everybody else,” she added.



A queue waiting for a news kiosk to open near Bastille, Paris.
Photograph: Kim Willsher For The Guardian/Kim Willsher


“It was incredible. I had a queue of 60-70 people waiting for me when I opened,” said a woman working at a newspaper kiosk in Paris. “I’ve never seen anything like it. All my 450 copies were sold out in 15 minutes.”
Jamie Johnson, 21, a language student from Exeter University working in Paris, reported a queue of 400 people snaking around a block in usually quiet streets in the 5th arrondissement by 8am.
Johnson said that a woman behind him in the queue shouted: “I am buying a piece of history.”
After he bought his €3 (£2) copy of the magazine, Johnson was immediately offered €10 for it by a man in the queue.


— FranceBleuLoireOcéan (@bleuloireocean)
January 14, 2015
5h20 ce mercredi : plus aucun #CharlieHebdo au kiosque de la gare de #Nantes. Les 106 exemplaires sont partis en 5' pic.twitter.com/PI2nn5im0O



In the UK, Gloucestershire newsagent Ila Aghera pre-ordered 200 copies of the British edition and sold out almost immediately – even though the copies will not arrive at her shop until Friday.
Aghera, who moved to the UK from Kenya in the 1970s and has run Forge newsagent in Charlton Kings for 15 years, said: “I feel overwhelmed by the amount of people who want copies. I am nervous. I’m shaking now. I’m only a little village shop but I don’t care because what I am doing is right.
“It is just mayhem. I am absolutely surprised by the reaction that I have got.
“This phone has not stopped ringing – I can’t take any more orders. I can’t pick up the phone because I don’t like disappointing people. We never had trouble here and I hope we don’t.”


— Luc Bronner (@lucbronner)
January 14, 2015
Impressionnant. A 6h, gare du Nord, une très longue queue, déjà, pour acheter Charlie Hebdo (via @HervHerv) pic.twitter.com/6UzQxXvB0R



Caroline Powell, 47, came in to order a copy, but was too late. “It is to honour the people that were massacred,” she said. “I will come in again on Friday. I think it is about freedom of speech. I think we should be able to buy what we want. Charlton Kings isn’t just a sleepy village.”
On eBay, UK-based sellers of the magazine were attracting bids of more than £500 on Wednesday morning. The magazine will go on sale in 25 countries.








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The front cover of the new edition depicts a weeping prophet Muhammad holding a sign saying “Je suis Charlie’” beneath the words “All is forgiven”.
The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Gérard Biard, said the edition had been made “with joy as well as pain”.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, he said: “We are happy to have done it, happy to have managed to do it. It was difficult because it had to be something of us, something of the events which we have been confronted with. This edition – the whole of Charlie Hebdo is in it. This edition is Charlie Hebdo.”


— France Info (@franceinfo)
January 14, 2015
La ruée vers Charlie Hebdo http://t.co/4bl8FwJ4uA pic.twitter.com/EfI9tKR0FN



He thanked the institutions and individuals who had pledged their support, and money, to the magazine following the attack on its offices last Wednesday that left 12 people dead, including two police officers.
“There will be a future, there is no doubt about that,” Biard said. “We don’t know what it will look like yet, but there will be a magazine, there will be no interruption.”
• This article was amended on 15 January 2015 to clarify that copies of Charlie Hebdo pre-ordered by Gloucestershire newsagent Ila Aghera will not arrive at her shop until Friday (16 January).



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