As it Happened: Charlie Hebdo Attack
Key Points
*Gunmen have attacked the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 people including the editor and celebrated cartoonists.
*The hunt is on for three suspects, named by police as Hamyd Mourad and brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi.
*It is the deadliest terror attack in France since 1961 during the Algerian war.
*President Hollande said it was an act of “extreme barbarity”, with many foreign leaders also condemning the attack
*In 2011, the satirical publication was firebombed after naming the Prophet Muhammad as its “editor-in-chief”
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