Paris attack: 10 journalists killed and 2 police killed

At about 11: 30 in the morning on January 7, the office of the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in the Eleventh District in the center of Paris broke into two men in black clothes armed with Kalashnikov machine guns and a grenade launcher. The editorial at this time held a morning planning meeting, which was attended by all the main journalists, headed by the editor of the magazine, cartoonist Stefan Charbonnier. The police reported that the raiders spoke flawless French. They forced cartoonist Corinna Rey to open the door to the room where the meeting was going, and said they represent Al-Qaida. In an interview with the French Communist newspaper l'Humanite, Corinna Rey reported that the attack lasted no more than 5 minutes. Another eyewitness, Cedric Le Beshe, said that the attackers cried out: “Tell the media that Yemeni al-Qaeda did it!”

According to the head of the Paris police union, Christophe Crepin, who arrived at the scene of the incident, the raiders immediately went to the editor-in-chief and killed him, as well as his bodyguard and police officer. Then, shouting “Allah akbar!” And “We avenged the prophet!” The rush opened fire on journalists who tried to hide on the roof of the building, but 10 people were killed.
At the disposal of the police were videotaped attacks, which some journalists managed to do on their smartphones. Among those who died was the chief editor of Charbonnier, as well as the famous French caricaturists Jean Cabs, Georges Volinski and Bernard Veljak, published under the pseudonym Tinew.
The police arrived at the editorial office, firing off of which, the attackers drove away in a black Citroen DS waiting for them, killing the second policeman and hitting a few passers-by with a car. In the northern district of Paris, Porte de Patin, they abandoned Citroen and fled. According to updated data, there were three attackers (including the driver of Citroen), and in addition to 10 journalists, two policemen were killed and four others were in critical condition in hospitals.
The French president immediately arrived at the scene and called the attack on journalists a terrorist act. Francois Hollande convened an emergency meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, later met with the country's leading religious leaders, and the highest level of terrorist danger was introduced in Paris.
The reason for the attack on the editorial board of Charlie Hebdo and the origin of the terrorists was clear from the very beginning: just a few minutes before the attack, a caricature of the leader of the Islamic State radical group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared on the magazine’s twitter with the signature: “Best wishes for the new year .
As already mentioned, among those killed in the attack on the editors of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was the editor-in-chief of the publication and cartoonist Stephan Charbonnier. London's The Daily Telegraph reported that its editor-in-chief, Stefan Sharbonnie, was on the black list of the Al-Qaida terrorist group and the Islamists had been hunting him for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. His scandalous fame his magazine received in 2006 year, reprinted cartoons of the Danish edition of Jyllands-Posten.
In the fall of 2011, the journal Stefan Charbonnier again fell into disgrace of the jihadists, making a comic decision to issue a special issue in which the prophet Muhammad would be named editor-in-chief. The cover of this issue with a caricature of a prophet walked through social networks for several days, and in response to 2 in the early morning of November, the editorial office Charlie Hebdo was thrown with Molotov cocktails.
In 2012, when the Islamists were alarmed because of the American film “The Innocence of Muslims,” Charlie Hebdo published a new series of cartoons, and the management of the weekly received many threats.
A few days before the January 7 terrorist attack, the magazine published a caricature entitled “France isn’t Attacked yet” with a picture of a militant terrorist who says: “Wait until the end of January, we will give you our New Year wishes”.
The January 7 attack in France became the bloodiest in two decades. With sharp condemnations of the next atrocity of Islamic militants made the head of Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Russia and the United States, where the White House press secretary Josh Ernest, on behalf of President Obama, offered condolences to the families of the victims and said that America is ready to help the French side in the investigation. However, speaking on CNN on 7 in the morning, Ernest abstained from calling the incident in Paris a terrorist attack.
“Josh,” moderator Chris Cuomo told him, “you constantly use the word violence.” I want to say that this is an act of terrorism, as the French president called it - an act of terrorism. You refer to the "Islamic State" and other villains, but in the end it does not matter. You know that you are fighting with a very large group of people, in general, the same beliefs. Do you see the terrorist attack in this and should it be condemned at this very level? ”
“Judging by what we know now,” said the White House spokesman, “we are confronted with something similar. This is an act of violence, which we, of course, condemn, and if the investigation determines that this is a terrorist act, we, too, will condemn it in the most stringent terms ... "
We must pay tribute to the president: a few minutes later, Barack Obama corrected his press secretary and called the bloodshed in Paris a terrorist attack. On Twitter, the commissioner of the New York police Bill Bratton, a message appeared that a detective constantly sent to Paris monitors everything that happens. Just in case, the building of the French Consulate General in New York had a strongest guard.
“The terrorist attack against the editors of Charlie Hebdo could be considered an excess,” Russian commentator Ilya Kramnik wrote on the website lenta.ru, “but as practice shows, impunity corrupts, and Europe has no means for a sufficiently clear answer to the terrorists. Regular bombing of the territories of the “Islamic State” can neither destroy nor intimidate those who have been growing for decades among constant wars and conflicts, especially when the EU and the US themselves consistently destroy the secular military regimes of Islamic states with their own hands from 1990's. European justice and prison for those who are already in Europe, especially can not intimidate the radicals, who in case of disobedience and other disobedience face a much more terrible punishment from their own comrades. ”