At least 12 people are dead, including two police officers, and another ten are wounded after two masked men stormed the headquarters of a French satirical newspaper and opened fired in Paris, according to media reports. The newspaper targeted was Charlie Hebdo, a controversial publication that previously came under attack in 2011 after it published a satirical image of the prophet Muhammad and ignited a firestorm within the Muslim community. Witnesses said that two men, armed and masked, marched into the newspaper offices and started shooting in the hallways, and began “killing people as they saw them.” One witness said that a gunman was overheard asking for employees by name and another told a French radio station that one shooter was yelling, “The prophet was avenged.” A magazine employee told France TV that the shooting happened during the weekly editorial meeting, at which all the journalists are present. According to Le Monde, Le Figaro, and other local media outlets, famous cartoonists Cabu, Carb, Tignous and Wolinski are dead.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:13:37 +0000
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