'Je Suis Charlie' was the slogan after 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack - a decade on, has anything changed?
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The resonance of the name Charlie Hebdo still rings loudly, a decade after the horrific attack on its offices. But the questions it raised have still not been answered. That day, twelve people were killed, eight of them members of the magazine's staff, when a pair of terrorists stormed into the offices, in central Paris, and opened fire with assault rifles. Eleven others were injured.
The pair were brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, who had been born in France but declared their allegiance to al Qaeda. They fled the scene, sparking an enormous manhunt that ended when they were killed two days later. The French nation appeared united in shock and disgust, the attack seen as an assault on the nation's history of secularism and free speech. But this was not a random act of terrorism. Charlie Hebdo was targeted, very specifically.
The magazine had published a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. In 2011, after renaming itself Sharia Hebdo for one issue, the magazine's offices were firebombed. The following year it printed a series of cartoons of the prophet, including one where Muhammad was naked.
Charlie Hebdo became the focus of a series of plots. Al Qaeda added its editor, Stephane Charbonnier, to a list of the terrorist organisation's prime targets. And then, on 7 January, 2015, the Kouachi brothers broke into the office and carried out their attack.
Read more: How the Charlie Hebdo attack unfolded. Two days later, they were both killed by the police after trying to take refuge in a printworks 20 miles outside Paris. They left the building, firing at officers, having previously declared they wanted to die as martyrs.
