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Charlie Hebdo Paris shooting: Two gunmen open fire in attack on magazine's offices killing 12
















 Jan 07, 2015 11:36



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Witnesses say they heard sustained gunfire at the office as the attackers opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles






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Scene: Gunmen opened fire at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo







A total of 12 people have been killed by two gunmen in an attack on the office of a French magazine, according to reports.The black-hooded shooters, who experts say appeared to have had military training, opened fire at the Paris base of satirical publication Charlie Hebdo.French media report "a number of fatalities," and the official death toll is 12 dead - 10 journalists and two police officers - with five people in a critical condition. There were reports that the gunmen asked for people's names before opening fire.Witnesses say they heard sustained gunfire at the office as the attackers opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles, killing the two officers. There are also unconfirmed reports the assailants had rocket-propelled grenade launchers.The weekly magazine has previously courted controversy with its depiction of religions, particularly Islam.


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Shooting: Bullet holes in the windscreen of a French police car


 French TV channel iTELE quoted a witness as saying he saw the incident from a building nearby in the heart of the French capital."About a half an hour ago two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs (an assault rifle commonly used in terror attacks)," Benoit Bringer told the station."A few minutes later we heard lots of shots," he said, adding that the men fled the building.The French media reports that the assailants fled from the scene in a black car, a Citroen DS. The reports also say they hijacked another car and fled towards the east of the city.


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


A cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo magazine who was dropping his child at a nursery has told of his horror as the gunmen launched their attack - and said the killers claimed to be in Al-QaidaCorinne Rey told a French newspaper: "I had gone to get my daughter at nursery."When I arrived in front of the door of the building of the paper, two men hooded and armed brutally threatened us."They wanted to come in, go up. I pressed in the code."They shot on Wolinski, Cabu... it lasted 5 minutes... I had hidden under my desk... they spoke French perfectly... they said they we're Al-Qaida."It was also reported that the gunmen waited for staff to have their morning editorial conference before launching today's attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine.









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This would have meant a large number of staff would have been in the same room when the pair opened fire.A shocking video showed the pair walking calmly out of the building following the shooting and executing a policeman as he lay injured on the floor.The French media also reported that witnesses heard the gunmen shout: "We have avenged the prophet."Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the attack, saying: "The murders in Paris are sickening. We stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press."Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the killings were a "barbaric attack on freedom of speech"."My thoughts are with the victims, their families and their colleagues," he said.


Chilling: A video grab taken from mobile phone footage taken at the scene shows the attackers


“Everybody here at the White House are with the families of those who were killed or injured in this attack,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, speaking on MSNBC.“Senior officials at the White House have been in close touch with their counterparts in France this morning. The United States stand ready to work closely with the French."An unnamed member of staff from Charlie Hebdo told French media that he and his colleagues received countless threats by email and phone - but did not take them too seriously.He said: “The last few months, we didn’t feel an immense worry despite the threats."Of course our offices were under police protection, which reminded us of the threats."Charb [the magazine's editor] was under police protection but sometimes he would move without policemen, which was a sign that he wasn’t worried at every moment."Luz and Riss too had police protection but it was stopped about a year ago.…we receive threats by email all the time and phone calls. But we don’t really take them seriously."We’ve become used to it. Recently we thought the threats we’re pretty much done."









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Firefighters and police officers gather in front of the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where up to 10 people are feared dead


The publication has launched a series of attacks on Muslim extremism and the last tweet on its profile page @Charlie-Hebdo-, sent about an hour before the shootings, included a satirical cartoon of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.In it he wishes everyone "good health".President Francois Hollande headed to the scene of the attack and the government said it was raising France's security to its highest level."This is a terrorist attack, there is no doubt about it," he told reporters.The imam of the nearby Drancy mosque, Hassen Chalghoumi, is at the site. He said: "It is necessary that the Republic is firm dealing with people who want to commit acts of terror."The shooters hit our freedom and our values. One can disagree with a drawing but  you respond with a drawing, not through violence."Earlier a police official, Luc Poignant, said he was aware of one journalist dead and several injured, including three police officers."It's carnage," Poignant told BFM TV.


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Firefighters and police officers gather in front of the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where up to 10 people are feared dead


In December 2011, the magazine's office was firebombed after it said the Prophet Muhammad would be editor-in-chief of its next issue.The area has been cordoned off by police.President of the National Assembly Claude Bartolone said: "Scenes of horror at the offices of Charlie Hebdo. My solidarity is with the victims."Charlie Hebdo is a satirical comedy weekly newspaper and features cartoons and irreverent stories and frequently lampoons religions of all types.









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Feared dead?: Stephane Charbonnier editor of Charlie Hebdo


It first ran from 1969 to 1981, when it folded, but the publication was resurrected in 1992.The editor is Stephane Charbonnier, who is reportedly one of the dead. The cartoonist Cabu is in a critical condition, according to Libération.He was included on an al-Qaida wanted list in 2013 for his cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.France is already on high alert after calls last year from Islamist militants to attack its citizens and interests inreprisal for French military strikes on Islamist strongholds in the Middle East and North Africa.There have been a number of shootings abd attacks in the France over the past few years.


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Fears: Cabu, a cartoonist, who is reportedly one of the dead


 In March 2012 Mohammed Merah, 23, a French man of Algerian descent, shot and killed a rabbi, two of his children, and another child at a Jewish school, in Toulouse, France, Police believe he had earlier shot and killed three paratroopers.Merah said he was a member of Al Qaeda and that he was seeking revenge for the killing of Palestinian children.French soldier Cédric Cordier was attacked and stabbed by a man in the Paris suburb of La Défense in what has been described as an Islamic terrorist attack.The attack occurred three days in the aftermath of the murder of Lee Rigby, in Woolwich.







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