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Charlie Hebdo
By: Nikole Lotton
Paris, France
On January 7, 2015, two masked gunmen broke into the offices of the satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Charlie Hebdo had become fairly well known for the way that they depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The two men killed twelve people, which included the editor Stephane
Charbonnier, seven other employees, and wounded eleven others. This was France’s deadliest terrorist in at least two decades.
More than 700,000 people took to the streets across France in tribute to the people killed by
Islamist extremists.
The slogan in French "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") was widely used following the January 7 attack on the magazine, as people showed their support.
Almost 40,000 people were seen holding up signs that read, “I am Charlie” with a large banner in the front of the rally saying, “We are all Charlie”. Charlie Hebdo will release its first issue since the attack Wednesday, January 13, but only a few hundred copies of the first printing are set to reach the United States over the next few days. This issue was created by the surviving employees using equipment and workspace provided by other companies. It is set to print nearly one million copies, which is much greater than its normal 60,000 copies. If necessary, there is an option in place to print two more million copies.
Editorinchief Gerard Biard told reports: “We are happy to have done it and happy to have been able to do it, to have achieved it. It was tough. The front page… was complicated to put together, because it had to express something new, it had to say something relating to the event that we had to deal with.” The front cover of the issue is said to be a islamic male holding up a sign that reads their slogan, “Je suis Charlie”. The magazine’s lawyer, Richard Malka, said yesterday (January 13): “We are not giving an inch. The spirit of ‘Je suis Charlie’ also implies a right to blaspheme.”
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By: Nikole Lotton
Paris, France
On January 7, 2015, two masked gunmen broke into the offices of the satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Charlie Hebdo had become fairly well known for the way that they depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The two men killed twelve people, which included the editor Stephane
Charbonnier, seven other employees, and wounded eleven others. This was France’s deadliest terrorist in at least two decades.
More than 700,000 people took to the streets across France in tribute to the people killed by
Islamist extremists.
The slogan in French "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") was widely used following the January 7 attack on the magazine, as people showed their support.
Almost 40,000 people were seen holding up signs that read, “I am Charlie” with a large banner in the front of the rally saying, “We are all Charlie”. Charlie Hebdo will release its first issue since the attack Wednesday, January 13, but only a few hundred copies of the first printing are set to reach the United States over the next few days. This issue was created by the surviving employees using equipment and workspace provided by other companies. It is set to print nearly one million copies, which is much greater than its normal 60,000 copies. If necessary, there is an option in place to print two more million copies.
Editorinchief Gerard Biard told reports: “We are happy to have done it and happy to have been able to do it, to have achieved it. It was tough. The front page… was complicated to put together, because it had to express something new, it had to say something relating to the event that we had to deal with.” The front cover of the issue is said to be a islamic male holding up a sign that reads their slogan, “Je suis Charlie”. The magazine’s lawyer, Richard Malka, said yesterday (January 13): “We are not giving an inch. The spirit of ‘Je suis Charlie’ also implies a right to blaspheme.”
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