FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “France on two fronts: New wave of terror attacks ahead of return to lockdown” – below is their description.
Hours before France goes back to lockdown it is back to maximum terror alert level. The third terror attack in just over a month targeting a church in Nice. Three killed in a knifing spree, a wounded suspect in custody. After Emmanuel Macron’s defense of the republishing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the prophet and a boycott movement in the Muslim world, what response to the latest attack? The choice of words matters.
FRANCE 24 English YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Charlie Hebdo
On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30am CET local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
Several related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region on 7–9 January 2015, including the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege.
Charlie Hebdo is a publication that courted controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders. It published cartoons of Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals. Its offices were also firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a caricature of Muhammad on its cover.