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Masked gunmen attacked the Paris offices of abusive account bi-weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, killing 12 bodies afore fleeing.
["933.14"]French aegis armament launched a above manhunt in the basic afterwards the gunmen fled the arena of the attack, The Guardian reported. Badge are analytic for two brothers from the Paris arena and addition man from the arctic French burghal of Reims in affiliation with the attack, a badge antecedent told Reuters.
The attackers stormed Charlie Hebdo's Paris newsroom during an beat affair and began battlefront indiscriminately, badge and prosecutors said. Witnesses told badge that the gunmen shouted "we accept avenged the prophet," according to Agence France-Presse. Charlie Hebdo artist Corinne Rey said the gunmen batten to her in chatty French and claimed to represent al Qaeda. The gunmen alleged out some of the victims' names, she told Reuters.
A video, allegedly filmed by an beholder alfresco the office, shows two gunmen dressed in black, battlefront automated weapons bottomward the artery and shouting "Allahu Akbar." Badge official Luc Poignant told the Associated Columnist the gunmen larboard in a cat-and-mouse car and afterwards switched to a baseborn vehicle.
France's Autogenous Abbot Bernard Cazeneuve accepted the deaths of 12 bodies in the attack. Four others were actively wounded, the French prosecutor said. A badge official told the Associated Columnist that one badge administrator was killed, forth with Charlie Hebdo's publisher, Stéphane Charbonnier, and Charbonnier's badge bodyguard.
French media outlets additionally alleged three Charlie Hebdo cartoonists as amid the dead: Cabu, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac, who is additionally accepted as Tignous. Economist and announcer Bernard Maris, who was visiting the office, was additionally killed, Reuters reported. Authorities accept not clearly accepted these deaths.
["1067"]Prosecutor François Molins said during a columnist appointment that at atomic two gunmen were complex in the attack. France's autogenous abbot had said beforehand that there had been three attackers.
French President Francois Hollande alleged the killings "a agitator advance afterwards a doubt," and convened an emergency affair with top government officials. The French baton vowed that the advance will not blackout abandon of the columnist in the country.
The National Syndicate of Journalists alleged for a assemblage in Paris in acknowledgment to the attack. Le Monde appear that at atomic 15,000 had aggregate in the basic to adjudge the killings, and Parisians were apparent captivation up pens as a appearance of abutment for the collapsed journalists. A cardinal of added gatherings were additionally planned in cities beyond the country.
Charlie Hebdo has been the ambition of abandon in the accomplished over its work. In 2011, its offices were firebombed afterwards it agitated a burlesque of Astrologer Muhammad on its cover. When the bi-weekly appear added annoying cartoons of Astrologer Muhammad a year later, it sparked agitated protests beyond the Muslim world.
Minutes afore Wednesday's attack, Charlie Hebdo tweeted a abusive animation of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the baton of the Islamic State group.
["614.98"]Armed gunmen face badge admiral abreast the offices of the French abusive bi-weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015. (ANNE GELBARD/AFP/Getty Images)
Media accumulate at the arena on the advance on Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris on January 7, 2015. (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)
An afflicted being is transported to an ambulance afterwards a cutting at the French abusive bi-weekly Charlie Hebdo's appointment in Paris, Jan. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Reactions caked in from about the world.
U.S. President Barack Obama accursed the advance in a account on Wednesday and said the American government would "provide any abetment bare to advice accompany these terrorists to justice." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry alleged the advance "horrific" and told the bodies of France that "each and every American stands with you today."
["599.46"]German Chancellor Angela Merkel alleged Wednesday's advance "an advance on abandon of accent and the press." She added, "This abhorrent act is not alone an advance on the lives of French citizens and their security."
British Prime Abbot David Cameron alleged the advance "sickening." Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to the victims' admired ones and all Parisians.
French President Francois Hollande, center, belted with aegis armament gestures as he arrives alfresco Charlie Hebdo's appointment in Paris, Jan. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Remy De La Mauviniere)
France aloft its aegis active to the accomplished akin in the deathwatch of the attack. Large stores, accessible busline and the offices of newspapers are amid the sites accepting added security.
French soldiers convoying at the Eiffel Tower afterwards a cutting at a French abusive bi-weekly in Paris, France, Jan. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Charlie Hebdo: French magazine previously targeted in 2011 ... | the offices of charlie hebdoEline Gordts contributed to this report.This is a developing adventure and has been updated.
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