The newsroom of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was attacked Wednesday, January 7, with automatic weapons . Twelve people, including eight journalists and two policemen were killed in the attack and eleven people were injured, four seriously, according to the Paris prosecutor . It outlined Wednesday night during a press conference held for the attack that decimated the paper's newsroom.
The Attack
It was 10 o'clock, on January 7 2015. Like every Wednesday morning, the drafting team of Charlie Hebdo met for its weekly press conference at the newspaper's headquarters at 10, Nicolas Appert Street in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, near the Richard- Lenoir metro station.
Around 11 h 20, at least two hooded men dressed in black and each armed with a Kalashnikov first arrived at 6 Nicolas Appert Street, where the Charlie Hebdo archives are. They yell "Is this Charlie Hebdo?". Noticing that they are at the wrong address, the two men leave and then head to No.10, where the headquarters of the satirical weekly is located.
Once in the building, they ask the two maintenance men at the reception where the Charlie Hebdo offices are located. One attacker opened fire, killing one of the two men.
They go up to the second floor, in the direction of the newsroom where they found all the newspaper's editorial team in a meeting. The two men opened fire while screaming "allahu Akbar ", according to a witness. The terrorists, according to the witness, said they wanted to "avenge the Prophet".
The designer Coco , who works for the weekly magazine, said she had "been to collect her daughter from daycare. When I arrived in front of the newspaper building door, two hooded gunmen brutally threatened us. They wanted to enter, go upstairs. I typed the code." She says that men" spoke perfect French" and "claimed they came from Al Qaeda."
According to this witness, the two men "shot at Wolinski and Cabu. It (gunfire) lasted for five minutes. I had taken refuge under a desk " ... Among the people affected was the officer responsible for the protection of the illustrator, Charb, "who did not have time to respond ," according to a police source who spoke to AFP.
Around 11 h 30, an emergency call to police reported shots at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo. Police officers were dispatched immediately to the location. Witnesses outside said they heard about thirty shots.
The Attackers Flee ....
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