{"id":3340,"date":"2015-01-07T20:59:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2015-01-07T20:59:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:59:18","slug":"12-dead-in-attack-on-paris-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/12-dead-in-attack-on-paris-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"12 dead in attack on Paris newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paris\"<\/a>Heavily armed gunmen massacred 12 people on Wednesday after bursting into the Paris offices of a satirical weekly that had long outraged Muslims with blasphemous cartoons.
\nThe late-morning attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in a quiet neighbourhood was the bloodiest in France for at least four decades.
\nVictims included three cartoonists and the chief editor who had been holding a morning meeting when the assailants armed with Kalashnikovs opened fire, officials said.
\nPolice said witnesses heard the attackers shout \u201cwe have avenged the Prophet\u201d and \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d (God is greatest).
\nPresident Francois Hollande immediately rushed to the scene of what he called \u201can act of exceptional barbarism.\u201d
\nLarge numbers of police and ambulances rushed to the scene, where shocked residents spilled into the streets. Reporters saw bullet-riddled windows and people being carried out on stretchers.
\nThe gunmen remained at large by early evening and there was no claim of responsibility. The interior minister said three assailants took part.
\nEditor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb and who had lived under police protection after receiving death threats, was among those killed in Wednesday\u2019s attack.
\nOthers left dead included the cartoonists known as Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski.
\nTwo police were confirmed among the dead and four people were critically injured.
\nThe paper\u2019s last tweet on Wednesday morning before the attack included a cartoon of ISIS group leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi and Happy New Year wishes.
\nThis week\u2019s front page featured controversial author French Michel Houellebecq, whose latest book \u201cSoumission\u201d, or \u201cSubmission\u201d, which imagines a France in the near future that is ruled by an Islamic government, came out on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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