Seventeen killed, twenty-two injured, by the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly, on January 7, 8 and 9, 2015, at the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher or in Montrouge. France has not forgotten.
The victims of the attacks perpetrated on the premises of Charlie Hebdo or the Hyper Cacher, in Paris, ten years ago, will occupy everyone’s minds this Tuesday.
It will indeed be difficult to ignore the wave of tributes which, this January 7, and the following days, will mark this anniversary. Ceremonies and initiatives of all kinds, of which we provide you with an anthology here, without any pretension to exhaustiveness, as the examples abound. Everywhere in France, in Occitanie in particular.
National celebrations
The head of state, Emmanuel Macron, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, members of the government, Parisian elected officials… All will meet this Tuesday, from 11:30 a.m., rue Nicolas-Appert in Paris, the address of former premises of Charlie Hebdo (the news remains unknown), for the first official national celebrations. They will continue on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where police officer Ahmed Merabet was killed by the Kouachi brothers as they left the editorial office of the satirical weekly, and then Porte de Vincennes, in front of the Hyper Cacher store.
Reading of a commemorative plaque, wreath laying, minute of silence, national anthem, greetings to families, no speeches: sobriety will be required during each of these meetings, the families wanted it this way, indicated the town hall of Paris.
And let us also point out that on Wednesday, the city of Montrouge will in turn organize a tribute ceremony to the municipal police officer killed by Amedy Coulibaly.
Everywhere in the Occitanie region
Here again, it is impossible to list all the gatherings announced for this day in Occitanie, from Toulouse to Montpellier. The regional community has in any case decided to organize a week of tributes and contemplation to commemorate these events.
Thus, from Tuesday, the exhibition of drawings will be launched Border line on the square in front of the Hôtel de Région in Montpellier. Building on which, all week until January 11, projections of images and drawings retracing these tragic days will be organized from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The same will happen on the facade of the Hôtel de Région in Toulouse.
This exhibition Border lineorganized in partnership with the Press Club and the SNCF, will also be presented on Wednesday at the Gare Saint-Roch in Montpellier, from where a train will leave for Toulouse, with cartoonists on board, to raise awareness among the general public about this discipline.
Further details that the City of Montpellier will remember, this Tuesday, on the square in front of the Town Hall, where a Je suis Charlie exhibition will be unveiled at 1:30 p.m.: around fifteen photographs have been brought together around an original poster produced by Man, a Montpellier press cartoonist well known to Midi Libre readers.
A special issue of Charlie Hebdo
We were waiting for it, it will be on newsstands everywhere this Tuesday, the special issue that the weekly devotes to the ten years of the tragedy which struck its editorial team (ten collaborators or guests of the newspaper and a maintenance worker had been killed) this 7 January 2015.
A 32-page special issue, in which caricatures selected during an international competition called #RireDeDieu, launched last November, will be published.
To discover this morning on newsstands.
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