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4 Jan 2025


NextImg:Ten years after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, satire is under siege
Europe | Free speech in France

Ten years after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, satire is under siege

Public support is waning for the right to offend

|PARIS

On the morning of January 7th 2015 two men, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper. Armed with Kalashnikovs, the pair murdered 12 people, including eight editorial staff, in less than two minutes. The perpetrators, who were linked to al-Qaeda, did not pick Charlie Hebdo by chance. For years, the irreverent newspaper had poked fun at religion, including Islam. It was the start of the worst-ever year of Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris, which killed nearly 150 people.

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