12 killed and four critically injured after gunmen attack Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
The terrorists shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the shooting at Charlie Hebdo. Gunmen attacked the headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the centre of Paris', leaving many employees dead and others injured.
Charlie Hebdo has a history of causing controversy with cartoons of Islam's prophet Mohammed.
Speaking to the BBC after its office was firebombed in November 2011, the paper's editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier (who is said to be among the dead today) said the incident had only confirmed that it was right to take the stance that it did.
He said: "This tells me we are right to publish the magazine, and we are right to continue defying Islamists and make their lives difficult as much as they do ours.
"If we can poke fun at everything in France, if we can talk about anything in France apart from Islam or the consequences of Islamism, that is annoying."
Speaking to the BBC after its office was firebombed in November 2011, the paper's editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier (who is said to be among the dead today) said the incident had only confirmed that it was right to take the stance that it did.
He said: "This tells me we are right to publish the magazine, and we are right to continue defying Islamists and make their lives difficult as much as they do ours.
"If we can poke fun at everything in France, if we can talk about anything in France apart from Islam or the consequences of Islamism, that is annoying."
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