Charlie Hebdo shooting
| Charlie Hebdo shooting | |
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| Part of the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks | |
Police officers, emergency vehicles, and journalists at the scene two hours after the shooting
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| Location | 10 Rue Nicolas-Appert, 11th arrondissement of Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°51′33″N 2°22′13″E / 48.85925°N 2.37025°ECoordinates: 48°51′33″N 2°22′13″E / 48.85925°N 2.37025°E |
| Date | 7 January 2015 11:30 CET (UTC+01:00) |
| Target | Charlie Hebdo employees |
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Attack type
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Mass shooting |
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| Deaths | 12 |
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Non-fatal injuries
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11 |
| Perpetrators | Chérif and Saïd Kouachi |
| Chérif and Saïd Kouachi | |
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  Chérif Kouachi (left) and Saïd Kouachi (right) |
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| Born |
Chérif: 29 November 1982 Saïd: 7 September 1980 10th Ardt, Paris, France |
| Died | 9 January 2015 (aged 32 and 34) Dammartin-en-Goële, France |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
| Nationality | French |
| Killings | |
| Date | 7–9 January 2015 |
| Location(s) | Charlie Hebdo offices |
| Target(s) | Charlie Hebdo staff |
| Killed | 12 |
| Injured | 11 |
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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 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, which took responsibility for the attack. Several related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region, where a further five were killed and eleven wounded.
France raised its Vigipirate terror alert and deployed soldiers in Île-de-France and Picardy. A major 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 became 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, compared to its typical print run of 60,000 in only French.
Charlie Hebdo ([ʃaʁli ɛbdo]; French for Weekly Charlie) is a French satirical weekly newspaper that features cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication is irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, is strongly secularist, antireligious, and left-wing, publishing articles that mock Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and various other groups as local and world news unfolds. The magazine was published from 1969 to 1981, and has been again from 1992 on.
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