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Charlie Hebdo attack and Paris shootings: The key facts
















 Jan 09, 2015 19:04



By Nicola Bartlett






Two days after gunmen entered the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and with the suspects dead after a siege, we recap what we know about the situation so far






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The terror attack in Paris began at the office of Charlie Hebdo, and ended in shootouts at two sieges







After terrorists forced their way into the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday killing 12 people, the hunt has been on for two gunmen on the run.The two brothers Cherif, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, today fled to the north east of Paris where they held a man hostage at a printing press where they were killed as the siege was ended.Meanwhile a terrorist linked to the original suspects took over a Kosher supermarket in the east of the city, also holding hostages. The gunman was killed, with four hostages feared dead as the siege ended.It has been a dramatic three days with the situation changing rapidly. This is what we know:1.  Charlie Hebdo is a satirical French magazine which has not been afraid to criticise Islam.


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Interior of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly newspaper


The weekly magazine is known for its anti-establishment stance and courted additional controversy by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.2. Twelve people, including the editor, were shot in the attack on the paper's office on Wednesday January 7.


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Mourned: Charlie Hebdo's deputy chief editor Bernard Maris and cartoonists Georges Wolinski, Jean Cabut, aka Cabu, Charb, Tignous and Honore (Philippe Honore)


The victims were nine members of current and former staff at Charlie Hebdo, a maintenance worker in the building and two policemen.The cartoonists, who were well-known in France, were gunned down while holding the paper's editorial meeting.They included Charb (real name Stephane Charbonnier) 47, editor of Charlie Hebdo,  Cabu – (real name Jean Cabut) 76, the lead cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo, Georges Wolinski – 80, an artist who had been drawing cartoons since the 1960s and Tignous – (real name Bernard Verlhac) 57, a member of Cartoonists for Peace.Charb's police guard was also among those killed. One cartoonist escaped as he was late for work after oversleeping that day, another was spared as he hates news conferences and never attends. Another only survived because the gunmen could not fit around the cramped room where he was hiding under a table.3. A female journalist said she let the gunmen in as they threatened her and her child.Corinne Rey was forced to enter a key code then watched in horror as they shot her colleagues Jean Cabut and Georges Wolinski.4. One police officer was executed in the street.









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 Shocking footage showed how the gunmen hounded the wounded officer who was lying on the ground, asking: "Are you going to kill me?"5. The way the gunmen moved around suggested they had military training.









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 Experts said the way the attack was carried out suggested the brothers were not amateurs.6. Stephane Charbonnier, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, had strongly-held beliefs about freedom of speech.


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Shooting: Stephane Charbonnier editor of Charlie Hebdo is reported to be among those killed


The editor of Charlie Hebdo, known as Charb, said: "I would rather die standing, than live on my knees."7. Je suis Charlie started trending as thousands showed solidarity with the victims.







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 The simple message- which translates as "I am Charlie" has become a symbol of protest, solidarity and defiance.8. Cartoonists from around the world showed their support for their murdered colleagues.
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

 Across the globe cartoonists drew powerful images in support of freedom of speech and defending their profession.9. The suspects were identified when one of them left an ID card in their abandoned getaway car.


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Armed gunmen are seen near the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris


Police were able to identify three suspects after an ID card was found in the Citroen C3 they abandoned as they escaped.10. The youngest man linked to the attack handed himself in hours later.The 18-year-old reported to police after seeing his name mentioned on social media. His classmates say he was at school at the time and nothing to do with the attack.11. Suspect Cherif Kouachi may have links to a Finsbury Park mosque extremist.


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Cherif Kouachi, who has been named as one of the masked gunmen brandishing Kalashnikovs who attacked the headquarters of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris


Cherif Kouachi, 32, the younger of the two suspects, may have met an extremist al-Qaeda member who was mentored by Finsbury Park mosque preacher Abu Hamza.French media say he was imprisoned in 2008 and was linked to the  "Buttes-Chaumont network" that helped send would-be jihadists to fight for al-Qaeda in Iraq after the US-UK invasion in 2003.Police detained him in 2005 just as he was about to board a plane for Syria - at the time the gateway for jihadists hoping to fight US troops in Iraq. The brothers are said to have been on a US no-fly list for years.12. #JeSuisAhmed has been used to show solidarity with the Muslim community in the face of potential Islamophobia.


Ahmed Merabet, who has been identified on Twitter as the officer killed during the terror attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo


Ahmed Marabet, one of the officers killed by the gunmen outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo, has been praised as a "hero".The 42-year-old bicycle patrolman's death has led to an outpouring of sympathy in France. His name trended across Twitter under the rallying cry #JeSuisAhmed - or “I Am Ahmed”.Many of the thousands who showed solidarity with the officer pointed out he died defending a newspaper which poked fun at his religion.13. A police officer was shot in the head in a separate attack on Thursday January 8


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Death: Clarissa Jean-Philippe was killed yesterday in Paris


 Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 27, was killed when she was was on patrol as a municipal police officer in the suburb of Montrouge - a middle class area in the south of Paris.The police officer was shot in the head by the attacker  when she attended a reported traffic accident.She was unarmed and had only been in the job for 15 days.14. The fleeing Charlie Hebdo gunmen stopped in a petrol station to steal food - alerting police to their location.


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A Gendarmerie criminal identification van is parked in front of an Avia gas station in Villers-Cotterets


The petrol station cashier called the police when he recognised the two brothers on the news as those who had robbed his store.18. The search moved to a village north-east of Paris.


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Force: French gendarmes secure a roundabout near the scene


The brothers holed up in a wooded area on Thursday night, with police and special forces using night vision gear and thermal imaging to try to find them.On Friday morning shots were fired and a car stolen, with a police chase up the N2 motorway toward Charles de Gaulle airport. The terrorists took a hostage in a print works.19. A salesman working in the printing site said he shook the suspects' hands thinking they were special forces.


A Eurocopter EC 145 helicopter of the French gendarmie flies over Dammartin-en-Goele where shots were fired and at least one hostage was taken


The man, known as Didier, told French media he came face-to-face with one of the suspects holed up in the small Création Tendance Découverte office in Dammartin-en-Goele.20. In eastern Paris, the gunman responsible for yesterday's killing of a policewoman held hostages in a Jewish deli.


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 Amedy Coulibaly, 32, took hostages in a kosher grocery in Porte de Vincennes on Friday afternoon. The 32-year-old was known to police.He was sentenced to five years in prison in December 2013 after his name appeared in a dossier linking him to radical Islamist Smaïn Aït-Belkacem, a former member of the Islamic group GIA, who was sentenced to life in prison for the attack on the RER station Musée d'Orsay in Paris October 1995.He was linked to a plan to spring the jailed man from prison.Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, was also linked to the escape while Cherif Kouachi's name also appears in the folder. Police still want to locate and talk to Boumeddiene.21. Paris was on edge with trams closed and transport interrupted across the city.


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Security: French soldiers patrol in front of the Eiffel Tower


Trocadero, opposite the Eiffel Tower, was evacuated after fears of a bomb but it proved to be a false alarm.22. Terrified woman inside Jewish supermarket rang daughter to tell her: 'I'm scared, I love you.'


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The unidentified woman says she has no idea if her mother is one of the two people reported to have been killed in the terrifying incident.23. The sieges are believed to have been forced to a conclusion when the Kouachis came out of their bolthole firing at police.









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Police had been negotiating with the brothers in a bid to put a simultaneous operation in place but are thought to have had to go in sooner when the Kouachis came out on the attack. They were killed and their hostage escaped. At the Jewish supermarket the gunman died and four hostages lost their lives.24. The partner of the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo has claimed the massacre at the newspaper could have been prevented.  


Jeannette Bougrab paid a moving tribute to her partner Stephane Charbonnier. She said: "The republic is guilty. The attackers were systematically protected by the police. There were hate messages (online) and no-one stood up to protect them."25. Charlie Hebdo will publish an edition next week and is being edited at the offices of newspaper Liberation.


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Gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs and a rocket-launcher opened fire in the offices of the weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris


The surviving staff are preparing to publish a print run of 1 million refusing to be silenced by the attacks.Follow the latest information as it emerges on our page dedicated to coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attack.26. Two of the terrorists were interviewed on French TV DURING siegesFrench TV station BFMTV spoke to Chérif Kouachi - suspected of being behind the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack - and Amedy Coulibaly, who was holding people hostage at a Paris grocery store.









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