This Tuesday, the country will commemorate ten years since the terrorist attack which struck Charlie Hebdo.
On January 7, 2015, the Kouachi brothers, two Islamist terrorists armed with Kalashnikovs, murdered twelve people, including Charb, editorial director, and the cartoonists Cabu and Wolinski.
In the newspaper's neighborhood, residents, still traumatized by the tragedy, think about it every day.
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Ten years since the Charlie Hebdo attack
On January 7, 2015, twelve people were killed in the attack on the weekly Charlie Hebdo by the Kouachi brothers, French people who had pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda. Among them, eight members of the editorial staff, the designers Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, the psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, the economist Bernard Maris and the proofreader Mustapha Ourrad.
Ten years later, Bruno kept photos of his street. And the memory of the Charlie Hebdo attack, which occurred a few meters from his apartment: “I didn’t see them, but on the other hand, I heard everything,” he said, in the 1 p.m. subject at the top of this article, remembering the caretaker of his building, “prostrate, on the ground”, with a resident”, telling him not to go out because of the gunshots.
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the attack which decimated the editorial staff of the weekly, it is not easy for local residents to talk about this attack. At the time, Argentina was a building caretaker in the neighborhood. Ten years later, she still thinks about it: “It was war, it really was war”he told TF1. “Shooting, screaming… it was huge.”
A “very blocked” neighborhood for quite a while
Four months later, Christophe Segura took over the “Comédie Bastille” theater, located in the 11th arrondissement, just opposite the former editorial office of the satirical newspaper. According to him, it took time before the neighborhood found its feet: “He was still very blocked for quite a while,” notably by the police and “onlookers who were there to see where this tragedy happened.”
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In addition to these 12 victims, the next day, in Montrouge, a police officer, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, was murdered by another terrorist who had also killed four people of Jewish faith at the Hypercacher, on January 9, 2015.
