Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly attacked last month by two self-proclaimed Islamists, publishes a new issue on Wednesday under heavy police protection, reports Bloomberg.
The first edition to be published after the attacks in Denmark has on its cover a pack of dogs chasing a small mutt clenching a copy of the magazine in its jaws. The pursuers include Pope Francis, National Front leader Marine Le Pen and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as a black dog representing the Islamic State terror group ISIS.
More than 2.5 million copies of the issue entitled “C’est Reparti!” or “Here We Go Again!” are slated to be published. The previous edition that came immediately after the Jan. 7 attack on the magazine’s offices in eastern Paris carried the Prophet Muhammed on its cover. The assault claimed 12 lives, including nine of the magazine’s journalists.
The newest Charlie Hebdo will go on sale amid heightened security across Europe. A series of killings, death threats and tomb desecration on the continent has mobilized police forces and put the threat level at its maximum in cities like Paris, London and Brussels.
More than 10,000 police and soldiers continue to be deployed in France to protect sensitive sites, including Jewish schools, tourist landmarks and French media. Heavily armed police and security forces were deployed at shopping malls after a Somalia-based terror group on Saturday threatened to attack such sites in the U.S., Canada, France and the U.K.
France has maintained the highest level of protection in front of Charlie Hebdo’s temporary offices at the headquarters of Libération newspaper near Paris’s Place de la Republique.
Security forces have been deployed both inside and outside the premises.
Five weeks after the Paris bloodbath, two attacks in Denmark left one person dead at a cafe hosting a free-speech debate and another victim at a synagogue. The attacks were similar to those in France, where two brothers fired on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, while a third shooter killed five people, including four at a kosher grocery store, in three days of violence.