The front cover of Wednesday’s edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the first since last week’s attack on its Paris offices that left 12 people dead, is a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad. Continue reading…
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French Jewish community ponders its future after Paris attacks
In the kosher Au Club Market grocery on Monday, the teaching assistant from the Jewish school in the Paris district of Montrouge fishes out her smartphone and hits play. The sounds of gunfire and children crying resonate in the quiet of the store, where teaching assistant Priscilla B is doing her lunchtime shopping. “I held my phone out of the window to record it,” she says. Continue reading…
Paris welcomes world leaders to solidarity rally against terror attacks
Protocol went out of the window as the 60 world leaders congregated in Paris on Sunday to show their support and solidarity with France after a week of terrorist bloodshed that left 17 dead. Continue reading…
Paris’s Jewish community retreats in shock after deadly end to siege
The gunman that killed four shoppers at a kosher supermarket in Paris on Friday may have planned to attack a Jewish school the day before but was thwarted by a car accident, local residents believe. Continue reading…
Charlie Hebdo staff hold emotional first meeting after deadly attack
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…
Anne Penketh 