Paris attacks: France to hold emergency meeting to avert future terror attacks
10 years, 2 months ago

Paris attacks: France to hold emergency meeting to avert future terror attacks

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen said it directed the attack against the publication Charlie Hebdo to avenge the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, a frequent target of the weekly's satire. The attack was in line with warnings from the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to the West about "the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctities," the member said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the group's regulations do not permit him to give his name. open image in gallery Both brothers were also on the US no-fly list, a senior US counterterrorism official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorised to discuss foreign intelligence publicly. The attacks in France as well as a hostage siege last month in Sydney and the October killing of a solder near Canada's parliament prompted the US State Department to issue a global travel warning for Americans.

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A Tunisian extremist is imprisoned for life for killing 3 people in a French basilica in 2020
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1 month ago

A Tunisian extremist is imprisoned for life for killing 3 people in a French basilica in 2020

The Independent  

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1 dead, 3 wounded in France knife attack labeled Islamic extremism
1 month, 1 week ago

1 dead, 3 wounded in France knife attack labeled Islamic extremism

Associated Press  

PARIS — A passerby was stabbed to death and three police officers injured Saturday near a crowded market in eastern France. An Algerian man identified as an Islamic extremist with a schizophrenic profile was detained in the attack, the interior minister said. Macron said the government has “complete determination” to respond to the attack, which he blamed on ‘’Islamist terrorism.’' …

France marks 10 years since deadly Charlie Hebdo attack
2 months, 3 weeks ago

France marks 10 years since deadly Charlie Hebdo attack

Associated Press  

PARIS — A decade after Islamic extremist gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a deadly assault that shook France to its core and ignited a global outcry in defense of freedom of speech, the nation paused on Tuesday to honor the victims and renew its resolve to fight for liberty and democracy. Two days after …

Charlie Hebdo releases special edition on 10 years of terror attack as France remembers victims
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Charlie Hebdo releases special edition on 10 years of terror attack as France remembers victims

Firstpost  

Ten years after two terrorists killed 16, including 12 journalists, in an act of jihadist terror at Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris, the magazine has released a special issue to mark the 10th anniversary A person raises the placard with slogan 'Je suis Charlie' in solidarity with the magazine at a demonstration in support of 'Charlie Hebdo' following the terrorist …

French weekly Charlie Hebdo marks 10th anniversary of attack with special edition
2 months, 3 weeks ago

French weekly Charlie Hebdo marks 10th anniversary of attack with special edition

The Hindu  

The French satirical newsweekly Charlie Hebdo will this week mark 10 years since 12 people died in an attack on its newsroom with a special edition of the magazine. "Today the values of Charlie Hebdo — such as humour, satire, freedom of expression, ecology, secularism, feminism, to name a few — have never been so under threat," the magazine's editor …

History Today: How the Charlie Hebdo attack unfolded on January 7, 2015
2 months, 3 weeks ago

History Today: How the Charlie Hebdo attack unfolded on January 7, 2015

Firstpost  

On January 7, 2015, France was stunned when two armed men stormed the offices of magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and killed numerous people. Here’s what else occurred on that day in history A man holds a pen with a sign during a vigil, for the victims of a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in …

10 years after attack, Charlie Hebdo is uncowed and still provoking
2 months, 4 weeks ago

10 years after attack, Charlie Hebdo is uncowed and still provoking

Raw Story  

by Adam PLOWRIGHT and Anne Pascale REBOUL French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is set to publish a special God-mocking edition next week to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by jihadist gunmen that left eight staff members dead. "They didn't kill Charlie Hebdo," editor-in-chief Gerard Biard told AFP in a recent interview, adding that "we want it …

France's Charlie Hebdo holds God cartoon contest 10 years since attack
3 months, 2 weeks ago

France's Charlie Hebdo holds God cartoon contest 10 years since attack

The Hindu  

Ten years after a deadly attack on its office that shocked France, Charlie Hebdo magazine is marking the anniversary with a cartoon contest mocking God, with Sunday as the deadline for submissions. The attackers — two brothers who were later killed by police — targeted Charlie Hebdo after it decided to publish caricatures lampooning the Prophet Mohammed, Islam's most revered …

Charlie Hebdo is at it again. How the French magazine has angered people with its Turkey earthquake cartoon
2 years, 1 month ago

Charlie Hebdo is at it again. How the French magazine has angered people with its Turkey earthquake cartoon

Firstpost  

Monday’s powerful earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks have flattened Turkey and Syria, killing now at least 15,383 people and injuring countless others. Anger over cartoon On 6 February, the satirical magazine — which has courted many a controversies — published a cartoon by artist Pierrick Juin showing teetering buildings amid heaps of rubble with the caption: “No need to send …

Microsoft: Iran unit behind Charlie Hebdo hack-and-leak op
2 years, 1 month ago

Microsoft: Iran unit behind Charlie Hebdo hack-and-leak op

Associated Press  

After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran’s ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back with a hack-and-leak campaign that was designed to provoke fear with the claimed pilfering of a big subscriber database, Microsoft security researchers say. Calling itself “Holy Souls” and posing as hacktivists, the group claimed in early January …

Iran Revolutionary Guards threaten French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo with terror attack over their cartoons
2 years, 2 months ago

Iran Revolutionary Guards threaten French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo with terror attack over their cartoons

Firstpost  

The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to take revenge against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that have been deemed “insulting” by Tehran, an Al Arabiya report said. “You have made a big mistake, but sooner or later Muslims will take revenge, and you may arrest the avengers, …

Charlie Hebdo: France's satirical magazine in new controversy
2 years, 2 months ago

Charlie Hebdo: France's satirical magazine in new controversy

New Indian Express  

The irreverent and militantly atheist publication operates today with round-the-clock police protection and from a secret location, seven years after it was attacked by Islamist gunmen. "There is nothing to regret," Charlie Hebdo's director Laurent Sourisseau, known as "Riss", told a French court in 2020 during a trial of accomplices to the 2015 gunmen. The murders sparked a global outpouring …

Charlie Hebdo’s history of provocation: From Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Prophet Muhammad
2 years, 2 months ago

Charlie Hebdo’s history of provocation: From Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Prophet Muhammad

Firstpost  

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has earned notoriety for its ‘offensive’ cartoons. The hatred that struck us is still there and, since 2015, it has taken the time to mutate, to change its appearance, to go unnoticed and to quietly continue its ruthless crusade.” The Prophet “editor-in-chief” cartoon On 2 November 2011, the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris were destroyed …

Iran lashes out at France over new Charlie Hebdo cartoons
2 years, 2 months ago

Iran lashes out at France over new Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran summoned the French ambassador on Wednesday to condemn the publication of offensive caricatures of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Its latest issue features the winners of a recent cartoon contest in which entrants were asked to draw the most offensive caricatures of Khamenei, who has …

Italy Arrests Pakistanis Linked to 2020 Charlie Hebdo Attack
2 years, 9 months ago

Italy Arrests Pakistanis Linked to 2020 Charlie Hebdo Attack

News 18  

Italy’s anti-terrorism police and Europol on Tuesday arrested Pakistanis suspected of links to the man who attacked France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in 2020. The sting led to “arrests in Italy and abroad of Pakistani citizens with direct ties” to Zaheer Hassan Mahmood, a Pakistani man who attacked two people with a meat cleaver weeks after the magazine republished controversial cartoons …

Sole survivor of jihadist cell says Paris 2015 attacks were in retaliation of French airstrikes in Syria
3 years, 6 months ago

Sole survivor of jihadist cell says Paris 2015 attacks were in retaliation of French airstrikes in Syria

The Independent  

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EXPLAINER: What’s at stake in the 2015 Paris attacks trial?
3 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: What’s at stake in the 2015 Paris attacks trial?

Associated Press  

PARIS — France is putting on trial 20 men accused in the Islamic State group’s 2015 attacks on Paris that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured. The modern courtroom was constructed within the storied 13th-century Palais de Justice in Paris, where Marie Antoinette and Emile Zola faced trial, among others. In the past, France has recorded trials of Nazi …

France urges citizens to leave Pakistan as violent stirs hit country; no threat, insists interior minister
3 years, 11 months ago

France urges citizens to leave Pakistan as violent stirs hit country; no threat, insists interior minister

Firstpost  

Anti-French sentiment has been simmering for months in Pakistan since President Emmanuel Macron expressed support for a satirical magazine’s right to republish cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed Islamabad: French nationals and companies in Pakistan were advised by their embassy Thursday to temporarily leave after violent anti-France protests paralysed large parts of the country. Anti-French sentiment has been simmering for months in …

French court finds Charlie Hebdo attack accomplices guilty
4 years, 3 months ago

French court finds Charlie Hebdo attack accomplices guilty

Al Jazeera  

A Paris court has handed jail terms ranging from four years to life to more than a dozen people convicted of helping gunmen who massacred cartoonists at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and customers at a Jewish supermarket in January 2015. The three days of attacks in Paris began on January 7, 2015, with the killing of 12 people at the …

France Struggles Against Spiral of Online Hate Against 'Jihad'
4 years, 5 months ago

France Struggles Against Spiral of Online Hate Against 'Jihad'

News 18  

As France reels from a string of jihadist attacks, the country is caught up in a perilous fight — protecting citizens against extremist propaganda whose potency seems to increase with each horrific killing. “It now reaches from radical Islamic politics to a much larger religious sphere.” ‘Hyper-violent imagery’ The online hate perpetuated the cycle of violence when an 18-year-old Chechen …

France's Hardening Defence of Prophet Mohammed Cartoons Could Lead to ‘a Trap’
4 years, 5 months ago

France's Hardening Defence of Prophet Mohammed Cartoons Could Lead to ‘a Trap’

News 18  

When the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo republished caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in early September, it triggered a chain of events that included two stabbings, protests in Muslim nations, the boycott of French goods and criticism from allies. The fierce defence of the caricatures has put the French in a position with little room for maneuver, where any compromise could …

Charlie Hebdo: Despite Violence, French Satirical Newspaper is 'Proud' to Provoke Islamists
4 years, 5 months ago

Charlie Hebdo: Despite Violence, French Satirical Newspaper is 'Proud' to Provoke Islamists

News 18  

It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism. Since a trial opened last month over the 2015 attack that killed 12 of its cartoonists, the newspaper has chronicled the proceedings daily and devoted nearly half …

Second suspect arrested in terrorist attack at church in southern France
4 years, 5 months ago

Second suspect arrested in terrorist attack at church in southern France

LA Times  

A second suspect was in custody Friday in the investigation into a gruesome attack that killed three people in a French church, as France heightened its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions stemming from caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. Issaoui’s brother told Al Arabiya that Issaoui had informed the family he would sleep in front of the church and …

Extremist video calling for revenge against France released day before Nice attack
4 years, 5 months ago

Extremist video calling for revenge against France released day before Nice attack

The Independent  

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Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence
4 years, 5 months ago

Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and …

Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence
4 years, 5 months ago

Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

Associated Press  

PARIS — It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism. Since a trial opened last month over the 2015 attack that killed 12 of its cartoonists, the newspaper has chronicled the proceedings daily and devoted …

Saudi man arrested after stabbing guard at French Consulate
4 years, 5 months ago

Saudi man arrested after stabbing guard at French Consulate

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Saudi man stabbed and slightly wounded a guard at the French Consulate in the city of Jiddah on Thursday, authorities said, as France urged its citizens in the kingdom to be “on maximum alert.” The Saudi Press Agency offered no immediate motive for the attack in the Red Sea port city. The Saudi Press …

Timeline: A series of attacks in France amid a debate over Islam
4 years, 5 months ago

Timeline: A series of attacks in France amid a debate over Islam

Al Jazeera  

The atmosphere in France is heightened, with three killed in an attack on a church in Nice. October 20 – Paris mosque closed French authorities said they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on “radical Islam” after the beheading of Paty. October 22 – ‘We will not give up cartoons’ Macron paid tribute to Paty, calling him a …

France vs Radical Islam: Charlie Hebdo mocks Turkey Pres Erdogan
4 years, 5 months ago

France vs Radical Islam: Charlie Hebdo mocks Turkey Pres Erdogan

Op India  

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday released a caricature of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the front-page of its latest edition taking a dig at him over his recent attacks against France. Charlie Hebdo’s latest edition of cartoons mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan/ Image Source: Charlie Hebdo Charlie Hebdo’s caricatures targeting Turkish President Erdogan came as a …

Muslim forum condemns beheading in Paris
4 years, 5 months ago

Muslim forum condemns beheading in Paris

The Hindu  

Intellectuals and activists from the Muslim community condemned the beheading of a French schoolteacher, at a webinar organised by Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy on Sunday. We are here not just to condemn the slaying of Mr. Paty, but also to demand the abolishing of apostasy and banishing of blasphemy anywhere and everywhere across the world.” ‘Killing against law’ Mumbai-based …

Charlie Hebdo row: Pakistan Foreign Office summons French ambassador
4 years, 5 months ago

Charlie Hebdo row: Pakistan Foreign Office summons French ambassador

Op India  

On Monday, the Foreign Office of Pakistan summoned the French envoy, Marc Baréty, to inform about the country’s strong opposition to the public display of Charlie Hebdo cartoons and comments of the French President on radical Islam. Shah Mahmood Qureshi seeks UN intervention against ‘Islamophobia’ According to the statement of the Foreign Office spokesperson, Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry, the French ambassador …

Charlie Hebdo's cartoons on Prophet Mohammad have France jostling between freedom of speech and Islamophobia
4 years, 5 months ago

Charlie Hebdo's cartoons on Prophet Mohammad have France jostling between freedom of speech and Islamophobia

Firstpost  

The French Constitution defines the state only as secular, but it doesn’t delineate the boundaries of this secularism On 16 October, a French teen of Chechen origin tracked down a high school history teacher and brutally beheaded him in a street in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine. According to a BBC report, the magazine’s offices were fire-bombed in November 2011 …

Giant images of Prophet Mohammed appear on French government building
4 years, 5 months ago

Giant images of Prophet Mohammed appear on French government building

India TV News  

A French city defied Islamist terrorism by projecting huge images of Charlie Hebdo caricatures on a local government building on Wednesday as heavily armed police officers stood guard. The projections, which included caricatures of Prophet Mohammed, came as part of a French national tribute to middle-school teacher Samuel Paty which took place on Wednesday evening. Paty, a history teacher in …

Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons projected onto government buildings in defiance of Islamist terrorists
4 years, 5 months ago

Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons projected onto government buildings in defiance of Islamist terrorists

The Independent  

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France: Charlie Hebdo cartoons projected on government building to express solidarity with Samuel Paty
4 years, 5 months ago

France: Charlie Hebdo cartoons projected on government building to express solidarity with Samuel Paty

Op India  

Days after the barbaric beheading of teacher Samuel Paty on the streets of Paris by a terrorist for showing the cartoons of Prophet Mohammad to his students, support continues to pour in for the deceased teacher. Amidst heavy security, the locals projected huge images of Charlie Hebdo cartoons and the images of Samuel Paty on a local government building as …

France 'considers plan to expel 200 foreign suspected extremists' after teacher beheading
4 years, 5 months ago

France 'considers plan to expel 200 foreign suspected extremists' after teacher beheading

The Independent  

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'Teaching Yes, Bleeding No': Thousands Rally in Tribute to Teacher Beheaded Over Cartoon in France
4 years, 5 months ago

'Teaching Yes, Bleeding No': Thousands Rally in Tribute to Teacher Beheaded Over Cartoon in France

News 18  

Thousands of people rallied in central Paris Sunday in a defiant show of solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Demonstrators on the Place de la Republique held aloft posters declaring: “No to totalitarianism of thought” and “I am a teacher” in memory of murdered colleague Samuel Paty. Castex was accompanied by Education Minister …

Paris terror attack: Knife attacker who decapitated teacher asked pupils to point out his victim
4 years, 5 months ago

Paris terror attack: Knife attacker who decapitated teacher asked pupils to point out his victim

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday the country’s fight against Islamic terrorism was “existential” after the …

France terror attck: Macron denounces decapitation of history teacher outside of Paris
4 years, 5 months ago

France terror attck: Macron denounces decapitation of history teacher outside of Paris

The Independent  

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Paris beheading: Teacher killed amidst chants of Allahu Akbar for showing Charlie Hebdo cartoon to students
4 years, 5 months ago

Paris beheading: Teacher killed amidst chants of Allahu Akbar for showing Charlie Hebdo cartoon to students

Op India  

In a barbaric attack, a high-school teacher was beheaded by an Islamic terrorist in the French capital Paris for allegedly shown caricatures of the Prophet of Islam to his students. The Paris beheading comes as a grim reminder of the Charlie Hebdo massacre where Islamic terrorists had gunned down 12 people in their officers for publishing the caricature. Teacher was …

Suspect claims prophet caricatures prompted Paris stabbings
4 years, 6 months ago

Suspect claims prophet caricatures prompted Paris stabbings

The Independent  

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France vows to protect Jewish community after Paris knife attack
4 years, 6 months ago

France vows to protect Jewish community after Paris knife attack

LA Times  

From left, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, French Prime Minister Jean Castex and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin at the scene of a knife attack Friday near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. France’s interior minister promised Sunday to protect the country’s Jewish community from extremists after a double stabbing blamed on Islamic terrorism in Paris last week. “Because we …

Paris cleaver attack suspect says he wanted to target Charlie Hebdo over controversial cartoons
4 years, 6 months ago

Paris cleaver attack suspect says he wanted to target Charlie Hebdo over controversial cartoons

Firstpost  

The suspect, who said he was born in the Pakistani city of Mandi Bahauddin and is 18-years old, ’takes responsibility for his action,’ a source close to the investigation told AFP Paris, France: A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said Saturday, with nine …

Paris knife attack suspect says he was targeting Charlie Hebdo, according to police
4 years, 6 months ago

Paris knife attack suspect says he was targeting Charlie Hebdo, according to police

ABC  

The man believed to have attacked and wounded two people with a meat cleaver on Friday is cooperating with police and said he had targeted weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police source has told Reuters. Key points: Nine people are in custody, including the suspected attacker Charlie Hebdo vacated its offices after the 2015 attack and is now in …

Paris stabbings: Suspect ‘targeted Charlie Hebdo in anger at Prophet Muhammad cartoons’
4 years, 6 months ago

Paris stabbings: Suspect ‘targeted Charlie Hebdo in anger at Prophet Muhammad cartoons’

The Independent  

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Paris stabbings: Seven people in custody after attacks near former Charlie Hebdo office
4 years, 6 months ago

Paris stabbings: Seven people in custody after attacks near former Charlie Hebdo office

The Independent  

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France: 7 in custody after stabbing linked to Charlie Hebdo
4 years, 6 months ago

France: 7 in custody after stabbing linked to Charlie Hebdo

Live Mint  

Seven people were in custody Saturday after a stabbing outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, including the suspected assailant, authorities said. Counterterrorism authorities are investigating what authorities called an Islamic extremist attack linked to Charlie Hebdo, which lost 12 employees in an al-Qaida attack in 2015. The suspected assailant in Friday's stabbing had been arrested a …

France: 7 in custody after stabbing linked to Charlie Hebdo
4 years, 6 months ago

France: 7 in custody after stabbing linked to Charlie Hebdo

The Independent  

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Two people stabbed outside Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris; French interior minister terms attack 'act of terror'
4 years, 6 months ago

Two people stabbed outside Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris; French interior minister terms attack 'act of terror'

Firstpost  

The minister said the assailant arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, apparently from Pakistan, but his identity was still being verified Paris: A young man stabbed two people Friday outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where 12 people were killed in 2015, and a terrorism investigation has been opened into the new …

Charlie Hebdo: Two stabbed outside magazine’s former offices in Paris after cartoons republished
4 years, 6 months ago

Charlie Hebdo: Two stabbed outside magazine’s former offices in Paris after cartoons republished

The Independent  

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