France on Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will lead the commemoration at the publication’s former headquarters in the capital.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote
How did the attacks unfold?
On January 7, 2015, at approximately 11:30 a.m. local time, two gunmen entered the offices of Charlie Hebdo on rue Nicolas-Appert in Paris. The magazine was known for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in the past.
The attackers were French-Algerian brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who killed 12 people and wounded 11 others.
He sent law enforcement on a massive manhunt across France, before being killed two days later after a lengthy standoff with police.
The attack sparked a spate of related violence in the coming days, killing 17 more people, including at a kosher supermarket in Paris.
2015 was a year of serious Islamist violence in France, culminating on 13 November with attacks on the Bataclan theatre, the Stade de France, and restaurants and bars in Paris. 130 victims lost their lives in these attacks.
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