Charlie Hebdo Journalists Killed
Caty richard a lawyer for the charlie hebdo journalists heard about the knife attack in the midst of the trial.
Charlie hebdo journalists killed. With its particularly raunchy cartoons about the prophet the publication had miffed islamists in the past as well. The megatrial had started on september 2 under heavy police protection. Five years ago on january 7th 12 journalists were killed and 11 were injured by armed gunmen who stormed the french paper s headquarters. Tributes paid to the 10 journalists killed by gunmen in paris.
The remaining journalists from charlie hebdo published a special survivor s edition defiantly depicting the prophet mohammed on the front cover as a sign the magazine would not be silenced. Charlie hebdo ʃaʁli ɛbdo. The knifings of two employees of a french tv production company outside the former charlie hebdo office on friday which occurred as a high profile trial on the 2015 attacks on the newspaper was underway was a stark reminder that threats to journalists have not disappeared in the five years since the deadly assault. Throughout the world journalists are still being killed for speaking the truth since the horrific attack on the charlie hebdo headquarters in 2015.
There were reports that the attackers called out cartoonists names before killing them. I am devastated angry the interior minister conceded that security was lacking on the street where charlie hebdo was once headquartered. The 2015 attack was the deadliest but not the first one on charlie hebdo. The publication 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.
News world europe charlie hebdo attack victims. Tributes paid to the 10 journalists killed by gunmen in paris. My first thought was this will never end she said. Charlie hebdo is part of a venerable tradition in french journalism going back to the scandal sheets that denounced marie antoinette in the run up to the french revolution.
Coulibaly 32 was in contact with saïd and chérif kouachi who had mounted an attack at charlie hebdo two days earlier in which 12 people were shot and pledged allegiance to islamic state.