How Charlie Hebdo atrocity rocked the world after al-Qaeda terror bros stormed French mag killing 12 a decade ago today
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A DECADE ago today, al-Qaeda terrorists stormed the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris - resulting in three days of terror. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, 32 and 34, brutally ambushed the paper's offices, killing 11 people in vengeance for printing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
![[Gunmen flee the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2015-obtained-reuters-hooded-gunmen-142054775.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
On Wednesday 7 January 2015, the two al-Qaeda gunmen stormed the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. The Kouachi brothers shot and killed the caretaker, Frederic Boisseau, before forcing cartoonist Corinne Rey to open the second-floor office where the editorial meeting was happening.
![[A mural, by artist Christian Guemy, dedicated to the staff of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper who were killed by terrorist gunmen in January 2015]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-paris-france-france-marking-962027411.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
The terrorist brothers stormed the meeting room, killing police officer Franck Brinsolaro, editor Stephane Charbonnier, and cartoonists Jean Cabut, Georges Wolinski, Bernard Verlhac, and Philippe Honore. Economist and writer Bernard Maris, psychiatrist Elsa Cayat, copy editor Mustapha Ourrad and visitor Michel Renaud were also killed in the heinous attack.
![[French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo has released a special front-page of its edition to mark ten years since the 2015 attack]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-french-satirical-weekly-charlie-961872717.jpg?strip=all&w=756)
Five minutes after the attacks, the evil Kouachi brothers came onto the street and got into their car to flee the scene. They attempted to drive north but got into a shootout with a police vehicle where one brave cop, Ahmed Merabet, got wounded before one of the brothers shot him in the head.
A devastating 12 people were killed in the heinous attacks - eight journalists, two police officers, a caretaker and a visitor. The terror two end up crashing their car and hijacking another vehicle, a Renault Clio, where they chillingly told the driver: "If the media ask you anything, tell them it's al-Qaeda in Yemen.".
![[People holding cardboards reading 'Je suis Charlie' (I am Charlie) take part in a Unity rally 'Marche Republicaine' in 2015]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2015-tribute-17-victims-three-961265051.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
