http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/07/shooting-reported-at-office-satirical-french-newspaper/
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http://news.sky.com/story/1403745/paris-policeman-shot-in-head-harrowing-video
At least 12 dead in shooting at office of satirical French publication
BREAKING: Black-clad gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a satirical publication known for lampooning Islam Wednesday, killing 12 and injuring as many as 15 before escaping, French officials said.
As many as three Kalashnikov-toting shooters were being sought following the 11:30 a.m. attack at Charlie Hebdo, the publication known for challenging Muslim terrorists with a 2011 caricature of Prophet Muhammed on its cover and which recently tweeted a cartoon of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Two policemen and several journalists - including the cartoonist behind the weekly publication's provocative images, were among the dead.
Weve avenged the honor of the prophet! the killers shouted, according to witnesses who spoke to Sky News...
French President Francois Hollande...[said] that the publication had been threatened in the past and was already under police protection and surveillance...
Officials said the men walked into the ground floor of the publication's offices and began shooting before making their way up to the first floor. Cartoonist Corine Rey, aka Coco, told the weekly Humanité that she let the men inside the building of Charlie Hebdo after being ordered at gunpoint.
They spoke perfect French," she said. "They said they were Al Qaeda.
Rey said the rampage lasted about five minutes. As the killers fled, they shot at arriving policemen. Video, believed to be cellphone footage, quickly emerged of the men shooting a kneeling police officer in the head as he begged for his life...
[The satirical newspaper]...first gained notoriety in 2006, when it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that appeared in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, in defiance of Islam's forbidding of any image attempting to portray its most important prophet. Its offices were firebombed in 2011 after a spoof issue featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover. Nearly a year later, the magazine published crude Muhammad caricatures, drawing denunciations around the Muslim world. One of the dead in Wednesday's attack was satirical cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, the publication's editorial director and the artist behind the caricatures that offended jihadists. He was the subject of a fatwah, and there is a Facebook page called "Execute Stephane Charbonnier"...
Video from Britain's Sky News (graphic) --
http://news.sky.com/story/1403745/paris-policeman-shot-in-head-harrowing-video
At least 12 dead in shooting at office of satirical French publication
BREAKING: Black-clad gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a satirical publication known for lampooning Islam Wednesday, killing 12 and injuring as many as 15 before escaping, French officials said.
As many as three Kalashnikov-toting shooters were being sought following the 11:30 a.m. attack at Charlie Hebdo, the publication known for challenging Muslim terrorists with a 2011 caricature of Prophet Muhammed on its cover and which recently tweeted a cartoon of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Two policemen and several journalists - including the cartoonist behind the weekly publication's provocative images, were among the dead.
Weve avenged the honor of the prophet! the killers shouted, according to witnesses who spoke to Sky News...
French President Francois Hollande...[said] that the publication had been threatened in the past and was already under police protection and surveillance...
Officials said the men walked into the ground floor of the publication's offices and began shooting before making their way up to the first floor. Cartoonist Corine Rey, aka Coco, told the weekly Humanité that she let the men inside the building of Charlie Hebdo after being ordered at gunpoint.
They spoke perfect French," she said. "They said they were Al Qaeda.
Rey said the rampage lasted about five minutes. As the killers fled, they shot at arriving policemen. Video, believed to be cellphone footage, quickly emerged of the men shooting a kneeling police officer in the head as he begged for his life...
[The satirical newspaper]...first gained notoriety in 2006, when it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that appeared in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, in defiance of Islam's forbidding of any image attempting to portray its most important prophet. Its offices were firebombed in 2011 after a spoof issue featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover. Nearly a year later, the magazine published crude Muhammad caricatures, drawing denunciations around the Muslim world. One of the dead in Wednesday's attack was satirical cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, the publication's editorial director and the artist behind the caricatures that offended jihadists. He was the subject of a fatwah, and there is a Facebook page called "Execute Stephane Charbonnier"...
