On January 7, 2015, terrorists entered the premises of “Charlie Hebdo” to carry out an attack, killing eight members of the satirical newspaper's editorial staff, and four other people, including two police officers. Europe 1 mentions the names of those whose memory will be saluted again, ten years after the attack.
It was ten years ago, January 7, 2015: the Kouachi brothers entered the Parisian premises of Charlie Hebdo to commit an attack there, after the publication of a satirical article on the Prophet Mohammed. Ten years later, France pays new tribute this Tuesday to the 12 people who lost their lives, on this day that was the precursor to a wave of terrorist attacks in the country.
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Eight members of “Charlie Hebdo” lose their lives
The two men armed with assault rifles burst into the premises of Charlie Hebdo late in the morning, shortly after the editorial conference. Eight members of the satirical newspaper were then executed on site, including the headliners of the title. The cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Tignous, Honoré and Wolinski die under the bullets of the terrorists. Three other members of Charlie Hebdo were also killed on January 7, 2015: Bernard Maris, economist and columnist, Mustapha Ourrad, proofreader, and Elsa Cayat, psychoanalyst and columnist.
Also, people who did not contribute directly to the satirical weekly were murdered that day. First, Frédéric Boisseau: this operations manager of a company responsible for maintaining the Parisian building is the first victim of the Kouachi brothers. A guest of the editorial staff, Michel Renaud, who came to return drawings to Cabu, is also one of the collateral victims of the two terrorists. The latter also executed two police officers: Franck Brinsolaro, who protected Cabu, and Ahmed Merabet, who tried to hold the two terrorists back as they fled.
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Those who escaped death
During this attack, people present in the premises escaped death, such as the journalist Philippe Lançon, columnist for Charlie Hebdo and seriously injured in the face. Fabrice Nicolino, also a journalist, survived after being hit in the legs. The newspaper's website manager, Simon Fieschi, was miraculously injured when he was shot in the spine. The editorial director, Riss, was injured in the right shoulder. Finally, a cleaning agent was also affected in this attack, without his life being put in danger.
Other people managed to dodge the terrorists' bullets. Thus, Gérard Gaillard, a friend of Michel Renaud, lay on the ground while the attackers fired. Journalist Laurent Léger took refuge behind a table before raising the alarm by telephone. Three other members of the editorial team also emerged unscathed from this killing: the designer Coco and the journalists Lucie Lapin and Sigolène Vinson.
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Finally, the last survivors of the attack owe their survival to fate. Three contributors to the satirical weekly, Jean-Baptiste Thoret, Luz and Catherine Meurisse, were supposed to be in the premises at that time, but they were late, and therefore escaped the terrorists' attack. Other contributors were absent for other reasons: the editor-in-chief Gérard Biard, the journalists Zineb El Rhazoui and Antonio Fischetti, the comedian Mathieu Madénian, the cartoonist Willem (who does not attend the editorial conferences) and the emergency physician Patrick Pelloux. All of these, as well as millions of French people, are once again preparing to salute the memory of the 12 missing people.
