Elsa Provenzano
Published on 01/07/2025 at 2:23 p.m. • Updated on 01/07/2025 at 2:53 p.m.
Ten years ago today, on January 7, 2015, the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo was the victim of an Islamist terrorist attack after the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Two days later, on January 9, 2015, a Hyper Cacher store at Porte de Vincennes was targeted by terrorists. In total, the death toll rose to 17, including 12 during the attack on the satirical newspaper.
Several ceremonies are scheduled for this Tuesday, January 7 to pay tribute to the seventeen victims of the January 2015 attacks.
Twelve people were killed in the Charlie Hebdo premises, including eight members of the satirical newspaper’s editorial staff. A police officer who was protecting Charb and another who tried to intervene in the street after the attack were also shot dead by the Kouachi brothers.
On January 8, Amedy Coulibaly, an accomplice of the Kouachi brothers, murdered a municipal police officer in Montrouge before killing four people of the Jewish faith the next day during a hostage-taking in a Hyper Cacher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes.
Laurent Sourisseau, known as Riss, was injured in the shoulder during the shooting. He succeeds Charb, killed in the attack, as publishing director of Charlie Hebdo.
A rally at Place de la République in Paris, after the January 7 attack on the editorial staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The emotion and indignation aroused by the terrorist attacks of January 2015 provoked a wave of demonstrations in support of the victims around the world. And the slogan “je suis Charlie” is spreading and available in many languages to defend freedom of expression.
The Jewish community is strongly affected by the anti-Semitic attack of January 9 which claimed the lives of four people aged 20 to 63. They were assassinated by jihadist Amedy Coulibaly, then shot dead by the police.
The trial for the January attacks was held on appeal in December 2020 before the Special Assize Court of Paris. The eleven defendants present were sentenced to sentences of 4 to 30 years in prison. Another, presumed dead, to life imprisonment.
A fresco by the artist Christian Guemy, aka C215, to pay tribute to the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo.
