Ten years after the Islamist shooting attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, France on Tuesday will commemorate the victims.
In addition to President Emmanuel Macron and a number of ministers, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, will also take part in the commemoration at the publication’s former headquarters.
A total of 17 people were killed in the shooting at the magazine on January 7, 2015, as well as in connected attacks on a police officer and a kosher supermarket in the days that followed. The three perpetrators were shot and killed by security forces.
Twelve people lost their lives in the attack on Charlie Hebdo alone, in which two brothers opened fire in the editorial office and caused a bloodbath.
The paper had previously published caricatures of the prophet Mohammed that incensed parts of the Muslim world.
The attacks in Paris at the beginning of 2015 were the start of a series of Islamist terrorist attacks in France in which more than 230 people were killed.
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