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    Terrorists killed 12 and injured many more in Paris attack

    12 Dead in Terrorist Attack on Paris Weekly; Gunmen Escape

    Three masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people, including its editor, before escaping in a car. It was France's deadliest postwar terrorist attack.

    Security forces were hunting for the gunmen who spoke flawless, unaccented French in the military-style noon-time attack on the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, located near Paris' Bastille monument. The publication's caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed have frequently drawn condemnation from Muslims.

    President Francois Hollande called the slayings "a terrorist attack without a doubt," and said several other attacks have been thwarted in France "in recent weeks."

    France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced protective measures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation. Schools closed across Paris, although thousands of people jammed Republique Square near the site of the shooting to honor the victims.

    Top government officials held an emergency meeting and Hollande planned a nationally televised address later Wednesday evening.

    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which also left four people critically wounded, and was condemned by world leaders as an attack on freedom of expression, but praised by supporters of the militant Islamic State group.

    Clad all in black with hoods and carrying machine guns, the attackers forced one of the cartoonists arriving at the office building with her young daughter to open the door with a security code.

    The staff was in an editorial meeting and the gunmen headed straight for the paper's editor, Stephane Charbonnier ? widely known by his pen name Charb ? killing him and his police bodyguard first, said Christophe Crepin, a police union spokesman. Minutes later, two men strolled out to a black car waiting below, calmly firing on a police officer, with one gunman shooting him in the head as he writhed on the ground, according to video.

    Ten journalists and two police office were killed, Crepin said, including one assigned as Charb's bodyguard and another who had arrived on the scene on a mountain bike. Among the dead were Bernard Maris, an economist who a contributor to the newspaper and was heard regularly on French radio, and Georges Wolinski, a celebrated cartoonist who also worked for Paris Match magazine.

    "Hey! We avenged the Prophet Muhammad! We killed Charlie Hebdo," one of the men shouted in French, according to a video shot from a nearby building and broadcast on French TV. Other video showed two gunmen in black at a crossroads who appeared to fire down one of the streets. A cry of "Allahu akbar!" ? Arabic for "God is great"? could be heard among the gunshots.

    The video showed the killers moving deliberately and calmly. One even bent over to toss a fallen shoe back into the small black car before it sped off. The car was later found abandoned in northern Paris, police said.

    Luc Poignant of the SBP police union said the attackers switched to another vehicle that had been stolen.

    Corinne Rey, the cartoonist who said she was forced to let the gunmen in, said the men spoke fluent French and claimed to be from al-Qaida. In an interview with the newspaper l'Humanite, she said the entire shooting lasted perhaps five minutes.

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/...tness-28050653

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    Marine Le Pen Calls for Return of Death Penalty After Paris Shooting

    The leader of France’s resurgent far-right party Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, has called for France to bring back the death penalty, in light of the attack in Paris on Wednesday. 12 people were killed when two gunmen attacked that Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which has published a series of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.

    Speaking to French broadcaster France 2 on Thursday, Le Pen said she believed corporal punishment “should exist in our legal arsenal” and promised to offer a nationwide referendum on the issue if she were elected president in 2017.

    “I have always said that I would offer French citizens the possibility to express themselves on the issue through a referendum,” Le Pen added.

    http://www.newsweek.com/marine-le-pe...hooting-297742

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    France Has Mobilized 88,000 Personnel After The Paris Shootings

    French special forces are combing the fields and woodland around a small town northeast of Paris today in search of two suspects in Wednesday's methodical attack on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people.

    Overall, more than 88,000 personnel are committed throughout the country, according to the French Ministry of Internal Affairs. Those include 50,000 Police employees, 32,000 from the Gendarmerie, 5,000 policemen and gendarmes of the Forces mobiles, and 1,150 military.

    The two brothers were reportedly seen in a light grey car carrying heavy weapons, including grenade launchers. On Thursday morning they held up a gas station in the town of Villers-Cotteret, stealing food and ordering staff to refuel their car, according to The Telegraph.

    "As Puma helicopters flew overhead, the heavily armed officers mounted road blocks and scoured the countryside in a an area ten by twelves miles square around the small town of Crépy en Valois, 60 miles north east of Paris," The Telegraph reports.

    Locals around the town of Crépy-en-Valois were advised to stay indoors as police went door to door and stopped cars for information. One witness described the nearby forest into which they're thought to have entered "is very big and very wide."



    The Aviationist reports that "600 military personnel are deployed in the region around France’s capital as part of Vigipirate, France’s national security alert system. The alert level of such forces was raised on Jan. 7, in the aftermath of the attack and additional reinforcements are set to be deployed in the next hours."

    Here's a graphic from the French Defense Ministry that shows the movement of assets to Paris.



    http://uk.businessinsider.com/france...ootings-2015-1

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    Far right party excluded from French unity rally

    Marine Le Pen, the head of the National Front, has denounced what she calls the 'exclusion' of her party from 'republican march.'

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    France's main far right party will not participate in the national unity in Paris on Sunday following the attack at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, its leader announced Thursday.Marine Le Pen, the head of the National Front has denounced what she calls the “exclusion” of her party from the "republican march," initiated by France’s major left wing parties.

    "By excluding the FN, the system was able to turn a moment of national unity into a symbol of division and pitiful sectarianism,"
    Le Pen tweeted. Different French political parties, unions, associations and religious institutions are preparing to participate in the march as a sign of unity following the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices that left 12 people dead.

    While most political parties have announced their participation in the march, Marine Le Pen had asked early Thursday for an official invitation by Prime Minister Manuel Valls. It never came.Quite the contrary, ruling Socialist Party’s vice president of the Ile-de-France region, Julien Dray, tweeted that Marine Le Pen's party had "no place" in the march given its "history."

    Asked about excluding the FN, Valls told RTL radio station that what mattered to him was “national unity, because it is the only answer. But national unity is also about values, deeply republican values: tolerance and refusal of racism."

    “Masks have fallen. The national unity is a lousy political maneuver… this is cheap politics, it's pathetic,"
    said Le Pen to daily Le Monde on Thursday. In the main opposition Party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), many have denounced the exclusion of the FN. The former prime minister, Francois Fillon said : "We cannot talk about national unity by excluding millions of French."

    The secretary general of the party, Laurent Wauquiez, tweeted : "All our compatriots should be involved in this moment of national unity, despite our differences."

    http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/447366-...ch-unity-rally

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    Americans, I am really shocked to read this:
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-journal...ebdo-cartoons/

    Did you already surrender against the islamic terror? You call the USA the land of the free but your biggest news are afraid to show the cartoons? This is what the terrorists want. Censorship.

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    All the Quebec newspapers have published the cartoons, but the CBC news are not posting it..I think CNN did not show it either...cowards all of them.

    Here is a petition asking that all news organizations publish all the cartoons, uncensored.

    https://www.change.org/p/editors-and...=autopublish&u
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    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    I signed the petition.
    I am thankful that all German news are showing the cartoons.

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    Charlie Hebdo suspects hunted north of Paris

    At least two Air France flights aborted planned landings Friday morning at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, according to a tweet from FlightRadar24.

    Flights into the airport are being "regulated due to security issues in the vicinity," leading to "high delays," European Air Traffic Control said on its website. There is an ongoing police operation in Dammartin-en-Goele, near the airport.

    Meaux hospital has sent a medical team to the reported hostage scene in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, the hospital spokesman told CNN on Friday. He said there were no wounded at the hospital yet, but that might change.

    One or more hostages are being held at a business near Charles de Gaulle airport, French media reported Friday. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told CNN affiliate BFM-TV that an operation was underway in the Dammartin-en-Goele area, as police hunt the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack.

    French police have surrounded an area where they believe the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack are located, Cazeneuve told CNN affiliate BFM-TV. The area is Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, Cazeneuve said. It is unclear whether there is a connection between the two events.

    http://www.wyff4.com/charlie-hebdo-h...#ixzz3OJit6bmL
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    Five hostages feared taken after new Paris shooting after Clarissa Jean-Philippe killing linked to Charlie Hebdo attack

    A second hostage situation, this time believed to be linked to yesterday's shooting of a female police officer in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge, is taking place in France.

    AFP is reporting that an armed man, thought to be the suspect in the murder of Clarissa Jean-Philippe, has taken at least five hostages in a kosher grocery in Paris.

    Shooting is reported to have taken place in the east of the French capital.

    This second crisis arose shortly after French police confirmed there was a “connection” between the shooting of 12 people at Charlie Hebdo's offices on Wednesday and the second shooting, in which a policewoman was killed, yesterday.

    Initial investigations have revealed a link between the suspects of the two incidents, which until now had not been linked, the newswire claims.

    Earlier today police said they had identified the suspect of the second attack, which took place during the early hours of yesterday morning, and were questioning two people “in his immediate circle”. Jean-Philippe, 27, was killed when she attended a routine traffic accident in the suburb.

    Meanwhile, police are attempting to make contact with the suspects of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Dammartin-en-Goele, a small town that is home to around 8,000 people in the Seine-et-Marne region. Schools with around 200 children are being evacuated.

    This morning French President Francois Hollande gave a press conference in which he said authorities were doing "everything we can" to capture the gunmen.

    There is still no confirmation of how many hostages have been taken but French media is reporting it may be one man in his 20s. French authorities have denied reports that one person has died.

    The suspects match the description of the two brothers thought to be responsible for the death of 12 people at the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo two days ago.

    Police have roadblocks in place to try and contain the men, named as Cherif and Said Kourachi. A third suspect, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, reportedly handed himself in yesterday.

    Reports are suggesting that the brothers have said they want to "die as martyrs".

    Charles de Gaulle has stopped planes arriving for two of its four runways, reports say.

    http://www.cityam.com/206812/charlie...-down-suspects
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