France has marked 10 years since an Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper that shocked the country and led to fierce debate about freedom of expression and religion.
CGTN’s Ross Cullen saw the commemorations.
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CGTN’s Ross Cullen saw the commemorations.
#CharlieHebdo #France
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00:00Well I'm here outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine at
00:06the offices here in the center of the French capital and you can see behind me
00:09some of the floral tributes that were left earlier during the ceremony as a
00:14mark of respect to honor the victims of that attack which took place 10 years
00:19ago this day. The 7th of January 2015 was when the two Kouachi brothers, Saeed
00:26and Sharif, broke into these offices shooting dead 12 people, 8 editorial
00:32staff at the newspaper, 2 people who happened to be in the building at the
00:37time and also 2 police officers in this area. The French president Emmanuel
00:42Macron, the Paris mayor Ana Dalgo were here along with the president at the
00:47time Francois Hollande and they laid wreaths outside the building. The attack
00:53on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper sparked mass demonstrations calling for the
00:59respect of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of expression and also
01:04the I am Charlie movement in solidarity with the killed satirists. The ceremonies
01:12today didn't just focus on Charlie Hebdo because there was another attack where
01:16the French president and the mayor of Paris and the former French president
01:20Francois Hollande were also present in Eastern Paris on Tuesday. There was a
01:24ceremony to honor the victims of an attack that took place at a Jewish
01:29supermarket on the 9th of January 2015, so also 10 years ago. An accomplice of
01:36the two brothers who attacked this building took hostages at a Jewish
01:40supermarket and did shoot dead 4 Jewish hostages before himself being killed by
01:46police. Now these two attacks were the first deadly incidents of 2015 a year
01:51which would end with the November attacks in the French capital which
01:54focused on the Bataclan theatre and in which 130 people died.