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Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people before escaping, in France’s deadliest terror attack in at least two decades.
15:09: French President Francois Hollande said the attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly, which has frequently drawn condemnation from Muslims, is “a terrorist attack, without a doubt,” and said several other attacks have been thwarted in France “in recent weeks.”
The gunmen responsible for the terrorist attack in Paris today are still on the loose, French President Francois Hollande said.
He did not say how many gunmen were involved in the attack on the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
14:28: A vehicle linked to the attack has been recovered. The terrorists remain at large and that the death toll has risen to 12.
14:09: Witnesses tell police that attackers were heard shouting “Ala Akbar” when firing.
14:02: One automatic weapon was retrieved at the scene.
French President Hollande calls the shooting “barbaric”, confirming for the media the shooting was a terrorist attack. The entire area is has been cordoned off.
13:43: France24.com tells international viewers that in the context of terrorism and attacks in France, today’s attack is extremely large and significantly larger than previous attacks. French officials report the terror threat level is at its highest. Officials explain that following the attack, the threat level was increased to “attack level”, that nation’s highest.
13:38: France24.com now reports the death toll is 11 and there are 10 persons wounded, with 5 listed in critical condition.
13:31: France24.com now reports 11 people have been shot dead. One expert interviewed on the news station calls Charlie Hebdo controversial, adding it has in the past mocked several religions, including Catholicism, Judaism and Islam.
He adds that a local court has ruled on petitions against the magazine, stating its controversial content is within the boundaries of freedom of speech.
According to French media report, at least one person is dead in a shooting at the headquarters of the “Charlie Hebdo” satirical weekly in Paris. Eyewitnesses tell police the attackers used Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles.
The magazine has been viewed as controversial, and in a recent Tweet depicted a cartoon of the Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Israeli media, quoting foreign sources, report the death toll is at least ten.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
Midah keneged midah.
You vote against Isreal in the UN Hashem will bury you.
Our Jewish brothers were butchered in a shul and now your people are getting butchered by the creatures and the beast Muslims…
MIDAH KENEGED MIDAH….
Im willing to bet the french write this off as an isolated incident provoked by a satirical cartoon. They are too weak to say anything else.
And yet, the moron, Francois Hollande, voted for a Palestinian State!
That’s right. The Kenyan in the White House taught everyone, if you lower yourself and make nice and apologize to these Muslim freedom fighters, they will just love you!
Another idiot!
1, 2 and 3 – you are fools. This was a vicious attack by the Zionist imperialist forces who dressed up like muslims and shouted allah isapiggy just to confuse the world. The French will never wake up. Like the British they are obsessed with the arab.
Protect Muslims so they can protect Islam!
The liberals are stupid they won’t learn. They will blame the Israelis for this….
Why in Paris is the Islamist referred to as a terrorist but in Israel they are referred to by the media as militants?
I find these comments to be in very poor taste. They had a terrorist attack. People *died*. Can we express some compassion? It’s a tragedy, politics aside.