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Terrorists Kill 12 in Attack on French Newspaper
Hooded gunmen opened fire on the Paris newsroom of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, 2015, killing 10 staffers and two police officers.
Editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier and three other cartoonists were among the dead. French President Francois Hollande called the shooting a "terrorist attack."
The weekly newspaper has long satirized the Islamic faith, and has been threatened in the past. Witnesses said the gunmen shouted, "We have avenged the prophet Muhammad!"
In 2011, the newspaper was firebombed after it published a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover.
"This is the darker day of the history of the French press," said Christophe DeLoire of Reporters Without Borders.
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