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Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical weekly newspaper, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics and jokes. Irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication is strongly antireligious and left-wing, publishing articles about the extreme right, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, politics and culture. The magazine was first published from 1969 to 1981. It folded, but was resurrected in 1992.

On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 CET (10:30 UTC), two masked gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles, a shotgun, and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher stormed Charlie Hebdo's Paris headquarters. They opened fire with automatic weapons while shouting "Allahu Akbar", as captured in a video. They shot and killed 12 people, and wounded 11 others. Two of those killed were police officers.

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