Police arrive on the scene of the hostage crisis in eastern Paris.// Laurent-David Samama It was mid-morning when I saw several police cars rushing into my street with their sirens on. Even glimpsed through my window, the situation looked unusual. In light of the recent massacre at Charlie Hebdo, I was suspicious, and headed out…
Two brothers suspected of a bloody attack on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed when police stormed their hideout on Friday, while a second siege ended with the deaths of four hostages. The violent end to the simultaneous stand-offs followed a police operation of unprecedented scale as France tackled one of…
(Reuters) — Twelve years ago, one of the two brothers suspected of the shootings at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was a young man like many others in France, more interested in girls and smoking dope than defending the Prophet Mohammad. But between 2003, when Cherif Kouachi delivered pizzas and dreamed of being a rap star,…
(Reuters) — Heavily armed anti-terrorism police swooped on woodland villages northeast of Paris on Thursday in a manhunt for two brothers suspected of being the Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people at a French satirical weekly. About two dozen helmetted and masked officers carried out house-to-house searches in the village of Corcy, a few km…
Jewish institutions in the Paris region have upped their level of security to the maximum following the slaying of 12 people at the offices of a French satirical weekly. The increase in security occurred hours after Wednesday’s slaying of 12 people at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly and it comprises an addition of…
It is not easy to be at the receiving end of Charlie Hebdo’s especially biting, brutal form of satire. Jews should know. Since the massacre of the French magazine’s top editors and journalists January 7, much has been made of their eagerness to criticize and lampoon people of all faiths, from the pope to presidents…
(Reuters) — The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself into police, an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The hooded attackers stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly known for lampooning Islam…
People gather outside French embassy in Berlin to say #JeSuisCharlie / Twitter Paris, my city, is under attack. All of France is shocked and shattered. As of 11:00 this morning, French TV channels and radio stations have interrupted their regular programming to cover the story of the attack. On Twitter, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie is now…
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