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'Al Qaeda' target cartoonists of French satirical weekly, 12 dead |
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were critically injured. The capital was placed under the highest alert status after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly that has sparked anger in the past among Muslims for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohamed. Editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, and the cartoonists known as Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski were killed in the attack on the paper, a judicial source said. Television footage showed large numbers of police in the area, bullet-riddled windows and people being carried away on stretchers. The attack took place at a time of heightened fears in France and other European capitals over fallout from the wars in Iraq and Syria where hundreds of European citizens have gone to fight alongside the radical Islamic State group. President Francois Hollande, who immediately rushed to the scene of the shooting, described it as a barbaric terrorist attack. "An act of exceptional barbarism has just been committed here in Paris against a newspaper, meaning (against) the expression of liberty," Hollande said at the scene. One man who witnessed the shooting said he saw two attackers shooting their way out of Charlie Hebdo at around 11:30 am (1030GMT). "I saw them leaving and shooting. They were wearing masks. These guys were serious," said the man who declined to give his name. "At first I thought it was special forces chasing drug traffickers or something. We weren't expecting this. You would think we were in a movie." Hollande called for "national unity", adding that "Several terrorist attacks had been foiled in recent weeks". The White House condemned the attack in the "strongest possible terms," while British Prime Minister David Cameron called it "sickening." Today's shooting is one of the worst attacks in France in decades. In 1995, a bomb in a commuter train attributed to Algerian extremists exploded at the Saint Michel metro station in Paris, killing eight and wounding 119. The satirical newspaper gained notoriety in February 2006 when it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet that had originally appeared in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, causing fury across the Muslim world. Its offices were fire-bombed in November 2011 when it published a cartoon of the Prophet which is against the tenants of Islam. Despite being taken to court under anti-racism laws, the weekly continued to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet. Editor Stephane Charbonnier had received death threats and lived under police protection. This week's front page featured controversial author French Michel Houellebecq, whose latest book Soumission, or Submission, which imagines a France in the near future that is ruled by an Islamic government, came out today. The book has widely been touted as tapping into growing unease among non-Muslim French about immigration and the rise of Islamic influence in society. Agency |
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