Thursday, January 5, 2017

France, tributes to the second anniversary of the attacks on "Charlie Hebdo"



In France they have developed homage during this swelling for journalists, police officers and buyers to shop Jewish, who were killed two years ago by Islamic terrorists, the first of a wave of terrorist attacks that left over 230 dead and imposed a state of emergency.

Between the cold weather in Paris, uniformed officers, ministers and the mayor of the capital remained silent outside the offices of the old editorial board of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo", as well as in other countries where there were victims, while wreaths tied striped blue, white and red were laid to commemorate the anniversary of the massacre.

Unbridled killings shocked the world and preceded a series of attacks, which contributed slightly to the collapse of the popularity of socialist President François Hollande, but also increased tensions between France's secular state and Muslim minority in the country.

In November 2015, armed militants and suicide bombers hit entertainment venues in Paris, leaving 130 people dead. Last year, a Tunisian who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State led a crowd truck in the coastal city of Nice, killing 86 other people. Other attacks with smaller dimensions include the murder of a Catholic priest in a church, and slaughtering causing the death of a policeman.

Thursday's tribute began in the old premises of the satirical magazine's editorial, which has since been removed to a secret location. On 7 January 2015, two armed brothers shot dead 11 people, among them journalists and cartoonists prominent magazine, nevertheless considered extremely provocative.

Tributes were also held in the place where a policeman shot dead by one of two aggressors. "Charlie Hebdo", at that time a magazine eager to financial funds, whose offices were attacked with petrol bombs after the publication of a cartoon mocking the Prophet Muhammad, is strengthened by millions of euros subscriptions since then, most of them in solidarity from countries that do not know anything about its existence before the attack.

Two attackers, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, were killed after a gunfight with police two days later at a printworks in the north of Paris. The attack on "Charlie Hebdo" was followed on the next day with the murder of a police trainee from Amedy Coulibaly, a true Islamic State. On the second day of the attacks, he stormed a Jewish shop in the center of Paris, which killed four hostages before he was killed by police. In total, 17 people died in attacks on "Charlie Hebdo" and "Hyper cacher" as the 3 attackers.

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