Charlie Hebdo marks 10 years after terror attack with special issue
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Gunmen stormed satirical paper’s Paris offices, killing 11 people, over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Ten years on from the Islamist terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France will ask: “Are we all still Charlie?”. The #JeSuisCharlie hashtag spread around the world in January 2015 after brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi stormed the paper’s offices killing 11 people in retaliation for it printing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
After gunning down several of France’s most celebrated journalists and cartoonists, the pair shot dead an injured police officer lying on the pavement outside. The murders would mark the first of three days of terrorist attacks in the French capital: the following day, Amédy Coulibaly shot a trainee police officer before taking hostages and killing four Jewish victims – three shoppers and a member of staff – at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket on 9 January.
All three gunmen died in separate police shootouts on 9 January. At the 2020 trial of 14 suspects linked to the Charlie Hebdo attack, Simon Fieschi, the paper’s webmaster, who was the first person shot after the Kouachi brothers entered its offices, said he still suffered physical paralysis and was in almost constant pain. Fieschi was found dead, aged 40, in a Paris hotel in October last year.
