January 7

On this day - 7th January 2015 - Charlie Habdo Shooting

Around 11:30 two brothers forced their way into the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Habdo. Shooting their assault rifles they injured 11 people and killed another 11. After leaving the offices they shot and killed a police officer. In further related attacks in France another 5 were killed and another 11 injured. France raised their terror alert and a massive manhunt led to the suspects on the 9th of January. The brothers were killed when they fired at the police when they left their hiding place. After the attack the phrase "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) became the slogan for the massive support for the victims. The following issue of Charlie Habdo was printed in almost 8 million copies in six languages compared to the normal 60,000 only in French. 

Muhammed under the headline all is forgiven, the cover of the following Charlie Habdo