On this date, January 7, 2015, Two gunmen commit a
mass shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing twelve
people and injuring another eleven. This event was known as the Charlie Hebdo
Shooting, I will post the information from Wikipedia.
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SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting
On
7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif
Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical
weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with
assault rifles and other weapons, they killed 11 people and injured 11 others
in the building. After leaving, they killed a French National
Police officer outside the building. The gunmen identified
themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist
group Al-Qaeda's
branch in Yemen, who took responsibility for the attack. Several
related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region, where a further five
were killed and 11 wounded.
France
raised its Vigipirate terror alert and deployed
soldiers in Île-de-France and Picardy. A massive manhunt
led to the discovery of the suspects, who exchanged fire with police. The
brothers took hostages at a signage company in Dammartin-en-Goële
on 9 January and were shot dead when they emerged from the building firing.
On
11 January, about two million people, including more than 40 world leaders, met
in Paris for a rally of national
unity, and 3.7 million people joined demonstrations across France.
The phrase Je suis Charlie
has become a common slogan of support at the rallies and in social media. The
staff of Charlie Hebdo continued with the publication, and the
following issue print ran 7.95 million copies in six languages, in
contrast to its typical print run of 60,000 in only French.
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