News 12 killed in attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

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Eyewitness Benoit Bringer told French television channel iTELE "about half an hour ago two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs." He described hearing a lot of shots a few minutes later.

Another witness said he had heard 40-50 gunshots before seeing two people fleeing in a Citroen C1.
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Read more: Gun attack on French satirical magazine kills at least 12 - Channel 4 News

12 people, including 2 policemen, are dead. At least 10 are injured.
 
12 dead and 10 injured with only 40 to 50 shots fired, if factually accurate, implies that they are trained, or well practiced, not just a couple idiots who decided to kill some people. Troubling.
 
harlie Hebdo (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁli ɛbdo]; French for Charlie Weekly) is a French satirical weekly newspaper, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics and jokes. Irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication is strongly antireligious[2] and left-wing, publishing articles on the extreme right, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, politics, culture, etc. According to its former editor, Charb (Stephane Charbonnier), the magazine's editorial viewpoint reflects "all components of left wing pluralism, and even abstainers".[3]
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my bet is some far right people didn't like what they wrote.

Although they probably ****** off a lot of people.
 
I was shocked when I saw this earlier this morning as it was such a brazen attack and you would think it would be almost impossible to prevent. It's amazing really how much information about an incident like this can be transmitted through social media.

I just saw on the BBC news channel that now they think there were three men who carried out the attack.
 
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Charlie Hebdo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

my bet is some far right people didn't like what they wrote.

Although they probably ****** off a lot of people.
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The office has been attacked before.

Gun attack on French satirical magazine kills 12 - Channel 4 News
"Mr Charbonnier was editor in chief of the magazine when it was targeted in a 2011 arson attack after running a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

He was included in a 2013 Wanted Dead or Alive for Crimes Against Islam article published by al-Qaeda's magazine "Inspire".
 
It's a terrible event, but I feel we don't really have a very free press(Propaganda model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)and 'satirical' media like this just play the part of legitimising the idea that we have a free press.
They attack Islam, in a way that will cause offence, while everyone knows that that is a dangerous thing to do, so there surely must be a free press. I mean if you can publish a cartoon with Mohammed's naked arse in the air, then there surely is a free press, and that the media don't really act as a propaganda and social control tool for the rich and their corporate interests.

Of course, now they have been assassinated, the rest of the media can play to the fears of the public, of those dangerous boggy men, and get them to accept for authoritarian control, and reduce freedom.
Will there be stories in the press about emails that could have been monitored, for example.. a push for more internet monitoring; more CCTV cameras around France, in the near future?

The media will wail about an attack on free speech
 
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Some responses to the attack. BBC News - Charlie Hebdo attack: the response in pictures

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I hope they can pull it off too, but I just don't see this ending well. Trained extremists with explosives, hostages, and a desire to become martyrs are a bad combination.
 
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Maybe they planned on becoming martyrs, but now it could happen, maybe they are scared.....I often wonder what it is like to end up in these situations......maybe they will be talking each other into dying....maybe they want to back out.....I wonder what a police person talking to them should say. Put doubts in their minds; remind them of good things in life they could still have, even in prison.
 
I was thinking, it's interesting that these two terrorists are brothers, just like the two Boston marathon terrorists were brothers.
 
They think there were four hostages killed in the kosher supermarket and five people dead altogether including the hostage taker.
 
This was in the top of the front page, while wages dropping got basically no attention in the newspaper today. That's the media. Stories related to violence tend to get the attention.
 
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