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'Charlie Hebdo' marks 10 years after attack with special issue

Gunmen stormed satirical paper’s Paris offices on January 7th 2015, killing 11 people, over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

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Ten years on from the Islamist terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France will ask: “Are we all still Charlie?”, reports The Guardian.

The #JeSuisCharlie hashtag spread around the world in January 2015 after brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi stormed the paper’s offices killing 11 people in retaliation for it printing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

After gunning down several of France’s most celebrated journalists and cartoonists, the pair shot dead an injured police officer lying on the pavement outside. The murders would mark the first of three days of terrorist attacks in the French capital: the following day, Amédy Coulibaly shot a trainee police officer before taking hostages and killing four Jewish victims – three shoppers and a member of staff – at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket on 9 January.

All three gunmen died in separate police shootouts on 9 January.

Read more of this report from The Guardian.