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Charlie Hebdo shooting
  • 2015
  • France
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Charlie Hebdo shooting

2015 terrorist attack in Paris, France

Photo: Thierry Caro / Jérémie Hartmann · Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped & Resized

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On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi. Armed with rifles and other weapons, the duo murdered 12 people and injured 11 others; they identified themselves as members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which claimed responsibility for the attack. They fled after the shooting, triggering a manhunt, and were killed by the GIGN on 9 January. The Kouachi brothers' attack was followed by several related Islamist terrorist attacks across the Île-de-France between 7 and 9 January 2015, including the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege, in which a French-born Malian Muslim took hostages and murdered four people before being killed by French commandos.

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Image: Thierry Caro / Jérémie Hartmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

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