Charlie Hebdo

…at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satiric magazine. The deadly violence focused attention on the threat posed by militant Islam, but the response to the attacks by the French was generally one of solidarity rather than reprisal.

…offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, including senior members of the editorial staff, in retribution for the magazine’s provocative portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad. The attackers fled the scene, triggering a manhunt that ended two days later in a village outside Paris when both were killed…

…Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had that week published an issue featuring a caricature of Houellebecq on the cover. His next novel, Sérotonine (2019: Serotonin), centres on a depressed agricultural engineer who moves to the countryside amid mounting social unrest. The work, which was highly critical of…

…assault on the satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo and the November 13, 2015, attacks. Special police agencies include detective and counterespionage services and the State Security Police (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité), used for dispersing demonstrations. The Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine), a mounted squadron of spurred, helmeted, plumed, and breast-plated guardsmen armed…

The satiric weekly Charlie Hebdo long had a reputation of skewering political and religious figures, and its relatively low circulation numbers belied its cultural influence. Its depiction of the Prophet Muhammad drew a violent response from Islamist militants—the magazine was firebombed in 2011, and a deadly shooting in…

…2011, the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo were destroyed in a firebomb attack after the magazine announced a special edition under the name of “Charia Hebdo” and named the Prophet Muhammad as editor in chief. Following the attack Charbonnier, who had taken over as editor of Charlie Hebdo in 2009,…

…the offices of satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo. A pair of Islamist militants armed with assault rifles burst into the magazine’s Paris offices and murdered 11 people, including editor Stéphane (“Charb”) Charbonnier. Over the following 48 hours, six more people were killed in attacks in and around Paris. The actions of…