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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

French President Francois Hollande honours January 2015 Paris Atatack Victims

French President Francois Hollande has unveiled plaques to the victims of last January's jihadist attacks in Paris as anniversary commemorations begin.
Seventeen people died in three days of attacks targeting Charlie Hebdo magazine, police and a kosher store.
The first plaque was unveiled on Tuesday outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, where 12 people were shot dead.
However it was immediately covered up as onlookers expressed shock that the name of one of the victims, Georges Wolinski, had been spelt incorrectly with a Y.




The plaque unveiled outside Charlie Hebdo's offices


French President Francois Hollande then took part in further ceremonies for a policeman killed as he chased the Charlie Hebdo attackers, and at the Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris where four shoppers died.

Note

Paris, January 2015: Three attacks in three days

  • Wednesday 7 January 10:30 - Kouachi brothers storm Charlie Hebdo offices, killing 11 people. They then murder a police officer nearby
  • Thursday 8 January 08:45 - Amedy Coulibaly shoots dead a policewoman and injures a man in the south of Paris
  • Friday 9 January 12:15 - Coulibaly takes hostages at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris. Four people are murdered

 



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