Charlie Hebdo shooting
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| Charlie Hebdo shooting | |
|---|---|
 Journalists, policemen, and emergency services in the street of the shooting, a few hours after the attack | |
| Location | 10 rue Nicolas-Appert, 11th arrondissement of Paris, France[1] |
| Coordinates | 48°51′33″N 2°22′13″E / 48.859246°N 2.370258°E |
| Date | 7 January 2015 11:30 CET (UTC+01:00) |
| Target | Charlie Hebdo employees |
Attack type | Armed attack |
| Weapons | Kalashnikov rifles Shotgun Rocket-propelled grenade launcher[2] |
| Deaths | 12 |
Injured | 11 |
| Perpetrators | Saïd Kouachi, Chérif Kouachi, and Hamyd Mourad (suspected)[3] |
Overview
changeOn 7 January 2015, at approximately 11:30 CET (10:30 UTC), three masked gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles, a shotgun, and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher stormed the headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.[2][4]
Background
changeCharlie Hebdo is an anti-religious left-wing newspaper. In 2011 the newspaper's office was firebombed because the cover of an issue of the newspaper called "Charia Hebdo" had a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad on it. The newspaper's editor-in-chief Stéphane "Charb" Charbonnier was added to Al-Qaeda's most wanted list in 2013.[5]
Events
changeThey shot and killed 12 people, including Charlie Hebdo staff and two French National police officers, and wounded 11 others.[6][7] In Niger, churches and cars were burned in protest of Muhammed on the cover of Charlie Hebdo.[8][9]
The gunmen entered the building and began shooting with automatic weapons, while shouting "Allahu Akbar". Up to 50 shots were fired during the attack.[9][10] Following a massive manhunt, the French police believe they have located the attackers and are mounting an operation against them.[9][11] On Twitter, users showed support for freedom of speech with the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie. It is similiar to Monkseaton Shooting.[source?]
Aftermath
changeVictims
change- Cabu, 76, cartoonist
- Tignous, 57, cartoonist
- Philippe Honoré, 73, cartoonist
- Georges Wolinski, 80, cartoonist
- Charb, 47, caricaturist and journalist
- Bernard Maris, 68, economist and journalist
- Elsa Cayat, 54, psychoanalyst and columnist
Suspects
changeSaïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi were identified by French police as the main suspects in the shooting. The two Franco-Algerian brothers, both from Gennevilliers, are aged 34 and 32, respectively.[12][13]
In 2008, Chérif Kouachi was convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to three years in prison, along with 18 months of suspension, for having assisted in sending fighters to Iraq's insurgency.[13][14]
Hamyd Mourad, an 18-year-old homeless man of unknown nationality, was identified by the police as a third suspect in the shooting.[15][16]
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ "En images : à 11 h 30, des hommes armés ouvrent le feu rue Nicolas-Appert". Le Monde. 7 January 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "'10 killed' as shots fired at satirical magazine headquarters". The Independent. 7 January 2015.
- ↑ "French police ID 3 suspects in attack on newspaper". Newsday. 8 January 2015.
- ↑ "Manhunt for French magazine gunmen". BBC News. 8 January 2015.
- ↑ Bennett, Dashiell (1 March 2013). "Look Who's on Al Qaeda's Most-Wanted List". The Atlantic.
- ↑ "Gun attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo kills 11". BBC News. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ↑ "Charlie Hebdo attack: 12 dead in Paris, manhunt on". CNN. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ↑ Graham-Harrison, Emma (17 January 2015). "Niger rioters torch churches and attack French firms in Charlie Hebdo protest". The Observer – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2
- Žižek, Slavoj (January 10, 2015). "Slavoj Žižek on the Charlie Hebdo massacre: Are the worst really full of passionate intensity?". New Statesman. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
updated 21 Jan 2015 5:57pm
- "Charlie Hebdo and the Erosion of the Liberal Left". The Humanist. January 14, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
- Journo, Elan (January 7, 2019). "The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo". Spiked. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
Four years after the massacre, the West continues to lose faith in freedom.
- Dougherty, Michael Brendan (January 9, 2020). "Western Politics Changed with the Charlie Hebdo Massacre". National Review. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
- "Western liberals' weakness on blasphemy is letting down Muslim dissenters". National Secular Society. March 31, 2021. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
- Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir (2024). "Part of the Western Left is now a clear and present danger to Jews and the West". Fathom Journal. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
- Žižek, Slavoj (January 10, 2015). "Slavoj Žižek on the Charlie Hebdo massacre: Are the worst really full of passionate intensity?". New Statesman. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
- ↑ "Charlie Hebdo attack – latest". BBC News. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ↑ Zemouri, Mélanie Delattre, Christophe Labbé, Olivier Pérou, Aziz (7 January 2015). "Attentat à "Charlie Hebdo" : le Raid mène une opération à Reims". Le Point.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ ""Un commando organisé"". Libération.fr. 7 January 2015.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Confusion as French Hunt Magazine Attack Suspects". NBC News.
- ↑ "Charlie Hebdo Paris shooting: Three men suspected of killing 12 in terror attack 'holed up near Belgium border'". Daily Mirror. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ↑ "Les trois suspects identifiés et traqués". 6 January 2015.
- ↑ Bond, Anthony; Allen, Peter (7 January 2015). "Three men suspected of killing 12 in Paris terror attack 'arrested near Belgium'". mirror.