A journalist stroked the arm of a colleague to comfort her. Others whispered into mobile phones as they sat at a table for their first editorial meeting in new premises.
For the staff of Charlie Hebdo, which lost eight journalists including five of France’s best-known cartoonists in Wednesday’s attack, the gathering in their temporary office at Libération was an emotional affair. Continue reading…
The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, whose latest book featured on the cover of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the day of the massacre at its offices, has stopped its promotion as the victims were being mourned. Continue reading…
The daughter of one of the cartoonists murdered in the Charlie Hebdo attack has shared a poignant photograph of his empty desk.
The image posted on Instagram by Elsa Wolinski, daughter of Georges Wolinski, shows an office where a pen lies at the ready on a sheaf of paper beside a black notebook. The caption says: “Dad is gone, not Wolinski.” Continue reading…
It was a Muslim policeman from a local police station who was “slaughtered like a dog” after heroically attempting to stop two heavily armed killers from fleeing the offices of Charlie Hebdo following their brutal massacre. Continue reading…
When attackers burst into the weekly meeting of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday and unleashed fatal gunfire on 10 journalists, four of them the magazine’s rambunctious and irreverent cartoonists, they struck at the heart of a paper that had become a symbol of free speech in France. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 