Saïd and Chérif Kouachi killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the terrorist group al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, which took responsibility for the attack. Charlie Hebdo is a publication that has always courted controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders.
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Saïd and Chérif Kouachi killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the terrorist group al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, which took responsibility for the attack. Several related attacks followed in the Île-de-France region on 7–9 January 2015, including the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege where a terrorist held 19 hostages, of whom he murdered four Jewish people. Charlie Hebdo is a publication that has always courted controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders. It published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals. Its offices had been firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a previous caricature of Muhammad on its cover. The following issue print ran 7.95 million copies in six languages, compared to its typical print run of 60,000 in only French. On 11 January, about two million people, including more than 40 world leaders, met in Paris for a rally of national unity, and 3.7 million people joined demonstrations across France. The phrase Je suis Charlie became a common slogan of support at the rallies and in social media. In 2010, two men based in Norway were arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack against Jyllands-Posten or Kurt Westergaard; two of them were convicted in 2013. In 1945, blasphemy became part of France, and blasphemy law ceased to exist with emancipation of the Catholic Church from the French Republic.
Under the principle of secularism, secularism was enshrined in the Separation of Churches and State in 1905. In the terms of the French constitution, all blasphemy is punishable by death, and in 1945, all blasphemers were convicted of all counts of blasphemy against the French government and all French citizens. In 2006, Islamic organisations under French hate speech laws unsuccessfully sued over the newspaper’s re-publication of the Jylland-Poste cartoons of Muhammad. In 2013, al- Qaeda added him to its most wanted list, along with three Jyllander-Postes staff members: Kurt Wester Denmark, Carsten Juste, and Flemming Rose. In 2011, police used guns to stop a would-be assassin who was sentenced to nine years in prison, and under police protection. On 1 January, three men were arrested and sentenced to three years in home, and two years in jail, for plotting to kill a cartoonist and editor. In 2012, the newspaper published a series of satirical cartoons of. Muhammad, including nude caricatures; this came days after violent attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East, purportedly in response to the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims. The newspaper’s office was fire-bombed and its website hacked. Two years before the attack he stated, ‘We have to carry on until Islam has been rendered as banal as Catholicism.’ The application went unanswered.
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