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At least two masked gunmen have attacked the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, with reports that 11 people have been killed. The attackers are believed to have successfully fled the scene and headed to the east of Paris, swapping vehicles on the way.
Witnesses reported sustained gunfire as the attackers opened with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The magazine has caused controversy in the past with its depiction of Muslims. A firebomb attack gutted the headquarters in 2011 after the magazine featured the Prophet Muhammed on the frontpage claiming he was the guest editor.
It has been claimed the gunmen were asking for people by name before shooting them. A number of France’s most famous cartoonists have been reported as having been killed. The attack took place at the weekly planning meeting, so all the most senior staff were present.
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Gunmen attack the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people and wounding 10, French officials say.
At least two masked gunmen have attacked the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, with reports that 11 people have been killed. The attackers are believed to have successfully fled the scene and headed to the east of Paris, swapping vehicles on the way.
Witnesses reported sustained gunfire as the attackers opened with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The magazine has caused controversy in the past with its depiction of Muslims. A firebomb attack gutted the headquarters in 2011 after the magazine featured the Prophet Muhammed on the frontpage claiming he was the guest editor.
France Info Radio (FIR) also said police had confirmed a toll of 12 dead and five critically injured. The death toll is believed to include two Police Officers, who arrived on bikes. FIR quoted a witness as saying he saw the incident from a building nearby in the heart of the French capital.
“About a half an hour ago two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs (guns),” Benoit Bringer told the station. “A few minutes later we heard lots of shots,” he said, adding that the men were then seen fleeing the building. A police official, Luc Poignant, described the scene as “carnage”.
In 2012 the magazine published a ‘naked’ photo of Muhammed, they have also used the magazine to mock a variety. One frontcover questions whether anyone in Europe wants Britain to be a member of the European Union.
The magazine was originally called Hara-Kiri Hebdo but was banned when it published a frontcover about the death of Charles de Gaulle in 1970. It was relaunched the following week under the new name Charlie Hebdo in reference to the former President.
It has been claimed the gunmen were asking for people by name before shooting them. A number of France’s most famous cartoonists have been reported as having been killed. The attack took place at the weekly planning meeting, so all the most senior staff were present.
The gunmen are still at large, leading France to raise it’s terror threat assessment to it’s highest level. The French cabinet will hold an emergency meeting at 2pm local time.
President Hollande visited the scene and said the series of terrorist attacks against France had taken place because they “are a country of freedom”. He added: “No one should think they can go against the spirit of France” and pledged a “firm response”.
The President said police had thwarted a number of terrorist attacks in recent weeks, he also said the actions of the Police had saved forty lives. He is believed to have been referring to the intervention by the two police officers who arrived on bikes and were killed.
A video has emerged of the attack, it shows the attackers using the standard infantry ‘double tap’ method with their AK47’s. Their control of the weapons suggests they were well trained.
This story is developing, additional reporting from Reuters.
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The debate on press freedom has restarted: 19th September, Charlie Hebdo, the French newspaper which describes itself as a satirical and social newspaper, published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad once again.
Muhammad: a star is born
This commercial success has provoked numerous articles all over the Europe. The weekly newspaper (a new edition every Wednesday) decided to ride the wave and to publish two versions next week: one called the irresponsible newspaper and the other called the responsible newspaper.
The first one, the “irresponsible” one, shows a prehistoric man with oil and fire in his hands. You see:The invention of humour. It’s an edition written like a ‘normal’ edition of the newspaper. And the other one, the ‘responsible’ one, has an empty cover. The editorial team said: it’s a version ‘as the Boutins and Cohn-Bendits want it to be’. The two editions will be the same price, the same size and the circulation will also be the same.
Twitter is buzzing
A few hours after the publication of the news, a lot of people were arguing and posting on Twitter about the two covers of Charlie Hebdo, even in Spain! I chose some interesting ones, judge for yourself.
Double cover for the new edition of Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo publish two editions, “readers to choose between the ass-licking press and the free press”
by Vivienne Anselme
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Charlie Hebdo (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁli ɛbdo]; French for Charlie Weekly) is a French satiricalweekly newspaper, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics and jokes. Irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication is strongly antireligious[2] and left-wing, publishing articles on theextreme right, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, politics, culture, etc. According to its former editor, Charb(Stephane Charbonnier), the magazine's editorial viewpoint reflects "all components of left wing pluralism, and even abstainers".[3]
It first appeared from 1969 to 1981; it folded, but was resurrected in 1992. Charb was the most recent editor, holding the post from 2012 until his death in the attack on the magazine's offices in 2015. His predecessors were François Cavanna (1969–1981) and Philippe Val (1992–2009).
The magazine is published every Wednesday, with special editions issued on an unscheduled basis.
On January 7, 2015, at least two attackers gunned down 10 journalists and two police officers at the newspaper's Paris office.[4]
History
In 1960, Georges "Professeur Choron" Bernier and François Cavanna launched a monthly magazine entitled Hara-Kiri. Choron acted as the director of publication and Cavanna as its editor. Eventually Cavanna gathered together a team which included Roland Topor, Fred, Jean-Marc Reiser, Georges Wolinski, Gébé (fr), and Cabu. After an early reader's letter accused them of being "dumb and nasty" ("bête et méchant"), the phrase became an official slogan for the magazine and made it into everyday language in France.
1969–1981
In 1969, the Hara-Kiri team decided to produce a weekly publication – on top of the existing monthly magazine – which would focus more on current affairs. This was launched in February as Hara-Kiri Hebdo and renamed L'Hebdo Hara-Kiri in May of the same year.
In November 1970, the former French president Charles de Gaulle died in his home village ofColombey-les-Deux-Églises, eight days after a disaster in a nightclub, the Club Cinq-Sept fire caused the death of 146 people. The magazine released a cover spoofing the popular press's coverage of this disaster, headlined "Tragic Ball at Colombey, one dead." As a result, the journal was once more banned, this time by the Minister of the Interior.
In order to sidestep the ban, the team decided to change its title, and used Charlie Hebdo. The new name was derived from a monthly comics magazine called Charlie Mensuel (Charlie Monthly), which had been started by Bernier and Delfeil de Ton in 1968. Charlie took its name from Charlie Brown, the lead character of Peanuts - one of the comics originally published in Charlie Mensuel - and was also an inside joke about Charles de Gaulle.[5] In December 1981, publication ceased, owing to a lack of readers.[citation needed]
1992–2010
In 1991, Gébé, Cabu and others were reunited to work for La Grosse Bertha, a new weekly magazine resembling Charlie created in reaction to the Gulf War and edited by comic singer Philippe Val. However, the following year, Val clashed with the publisher, who wanted apolitical mischief, and was fired. Gébé and Cabu walked out with him and decided to launch their own paper again. The three called upon Cavanna, Delfeil de Ton and Wolinski, requesting their help and input. After much searching for a new name, the obvious idea of resurrecting Charlie-Hebdo was agreed on. The new magazine was owned by Val, Gébé, Cabu and singer Renaud Séchan. Val was editor, Gébé artistic director.
The publication of the new Charlie Hebdo began in July 1992 amidst much publicity. The first issue under the new publication sold 100,000 copies.
Choron, who had fallen out with his former colleagues, tried to restart a weekly Hara-Kiri, but its publication was short-lived. Choron died in January 2005.
In 2000, journalist Mona Chollet was sacked after she had protested against a Philippe Val article which called Palestinians "non-civilized".[6]
In 2004, following the death of Gébé, Val succeeded him as director of the publication, while still holding his position as editor.
Controversy arose over the publication's February 9, 2006 edition. Under the title "Mahomet débordé par les intégristes" ("Muhammad overwhelmed by fundamentalists"), the front page showed a cartoon of a weeping Prophet Muhammad saying "C'est dur d'être aimé par des cons" ("it's hard being loved by jerks"). The newspaper reprinted the twelve cartoons of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and added some of their own. Compared to a regular circulation of 100,000 sold copies, this edition enjoyed great commercial success. 160,000 copies were sold and another 150,000 were in print later that day.
In response, French President Jacques Chirac condemned "overt provocations" which could inflame passions. "Anything that can hurt the convictions of someone else, in particular religious convictions, should be avoided", Chirac said. The Grand Mosque, the Muslim World League and the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF) sued, claiming the cartoon edition included racist cartoons.[7]
The suit by the Grand Mosque and the UOIF reached the courts in February 2007. Publisher Philippe Val contended "It is racist to imagine that they can't understand a joke" but Francis Szpiner, the lawyer for the Grand Mosque, explained the suit: "Two of those caricatures make a link between Muslims and Muslim terrorists. That has a name and it's called racism."[9]
Future president Nicolas Sarkozy sent a letter to be read in court expressing his support for the ancient French tradition of satire.[10] François Bayrou and future president François Hollande also expressed their support for freedom of expression. The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) criticized the expression of these sentiments, claiming they were politicizing a court case.[11]
On March 22, 2007, executive editor Philippe Val was acquitted by the court.[12] The court followed the state attorney's reasoning that two of the three cartoons were not an attack on Islam, but on Muslim terrorists, and that the third cartoon with Mohammed with a bomb in his turban should be seen in the context of the magazine in question which attacked religious fundamentalism.
In 2008, controversy broke over a column by veteran cartoonist Siné led to accusations of antisemitism and Siné's sacking by Val. Siné sued the newspaper for unfair dismissal and Charlie Hebdo was sentenced to pay him 90,000 euros in damages.[13] Siné launched a rival paper calledSiné Hebdo which later became Siné Mensuel. Charlie Hebdo launched its Internet site, after years of reluctance[citation needed] from Val.
In 2009, Philippe Val resigned after being appointed director of France Inter, a public radio station to which he has contributed since the early 1990s. His functions were split between two cartoonists, Charb (Stéphane Charbonnier) and Riss (Laurent Sourisseau). Val gave away his shares in 2011.[citation needed]
2011–present
The paper's controversial 3 November 2011 issue, renamed "Charia Hebdo" and "guest-edited" byMuhammad. He is depicted saying: "100 lashes of the whip if you don't die laughing."
Debris outside the paper's offices following the November 2011 attack
In the early hours of November 2, 2011, the newspaper's office in the 20th arrondissement[14] was fire-bombed and its website hacked. The attacks were presumed linked to its decision to rename a special edition "Charia Hebdo", with the Islamic Prophet Mohammed listed as the "editor-in-chief".[15]The cover, featuring a cartoon of Mohammed by Luz (Renald Luzier), had circulated on social media for a couple of days.
Charb was quoted by AP stating that the attack might have been carried out by "stupid people who don't know what Islam is" and that they are "idiots who betray their own religion". Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, said his organisation deplores "the very mocking tone of the paper toward Islam and its prophet but reaffirms with force its total opposition to all acts and all forms of violence."[16] François Fillon, the prime minister, and Claude Guéant, the interior minister, voiced support for Charlie Hebdo,[14] as did feminist writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who criticised calls for self-censorship.[17]
In September 2012, the newspaper published a series of satirical cartoons of Muhammed, some of which feature nude caricatures of him.[18][19] Given that this came days after a series of attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East, purportedly in response to the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims, the French government decided to increase security at certain French embassies, as well as to close the French embassies, consulates, cultural centers, and international schools in about 20Muslim countries.[20] In addition, riot police surrounded the offices of the magazine to protect against possible attacks.[19][21][22]
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius criticised the magazine's decision, saying, "In France, there is a principle of freedom of expression, which should not be undermined. In the present context, given this absurd video that has been aired, strong emotions have been awakened in many Muslim countries. Is it really sensible or intelligent to pour oil on the fire?"[23] However, the newspaper's editor defended publication of the cartoons, saying, "We do caricatures of everyone, and above all every week, and when we do it with the Prophet, it's called provocation."[24]
January 2015 attack
On 7 January 2015, at least two gunmen opened fire at the Paris office of Charlie "Yebdo", killing at least 12, and seriously wounding at least 4.[4]
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