RT published this video item, entitled “‘We will slap anyone who insults our prophet’ | Iranian Muslims burn French flags” – below is their description.
Iranian protesters gather outside French embassy in Tehran holding banners mocking Macron and Charlie Hebdo before burning French flags
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The video item below is a piece of English language content from RT (formerly Russia Today). RT is a Russian state-funded broadcaster.
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.
