Charlie Hebdo

Paris attackers located, police try to start dialogue

Police negotiators are trying to launch a dialogue with the Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects believed to be holed up in an industrial building north of Paris, French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says. “The priority is to resolve this crisis in the most serene way possible, which means without violence,”[…]

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Search narrows for Charlie Hebdo suspects

Heavily armed anti-terrorism police have swooped on residential areas northeast of Paris in a extensive manhunt for two brothers suspected of being the gunmen who killed 12 people at a satirical weekly in the French capital. Officers said the operation began after witnesses sighted the two men said to be[…]

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Restaurant, mosques attacked in France

An explosion rocked a restaurant near a mosque in the French village of Villefranche-sur-Saone, on the outskirts of Lyon, about 270 miles south of Paris, even as reports emerged of attacks against several mosques around the country. There is no evidence to link the restaurant blast with the killings at[…]

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SA gov condemns ‘barbaric’ French attack

The South African government has condemned an attack on French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people were killed in Paris, the international relations department said on Thursday. “The South African government joins the international community in condemning the calculated and barbaric terrorist attack on [Wednesday] against journalists and[…]

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MJC condemns attack on French magazine

The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has condemned Wednesday’s attack on a satirical magazine in the French capital of Paris. President Maulana Ighsaan Hendricks said there can be no form of explanation to justify what he labels a ‘terrorist’ attack on French citizens. The attack was directed at French satirical weekly[…]

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“Charlie Hebdo attack a sad day for journalism”: Azizi

Global outrage and condemnation continues to pour in following the shocking attack on the offices of French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo. The incident led to the deaths of 12 people, the majority of whom were journalists and comics working at the magazine. Amongst those killed was editor and cartoonist, Stéphane[…]

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Two suspects in Paris attack named

Police in France have identified and released the photographs of two brothers suspected to be involved in the attack on the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, that left 12 people, including four cartoonists and two police officers, dead. The two brothers have been identified as 32-year-old Said Kouachi and[…]

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