A tribute was paid this Friday in front of the former premises of the satirical newspaper Charlie hebdo, where 11 people died on January 7, 2015 in an Islamist terrorist attack.
As every year, the same ceremony was repeated three times, in three different places, on January 7, 2022. First in front of 10, rue Nicolas-Appert (XIth arrondissement), former premises of the satirical weekly, where the Saïd brothers and Chérif Kouachi shot dead 11 people. Among the victims, the cartoonist Charb, the cartoonists Cabu, Wolinksi, Honoré, Tignous, the economist Bernard Maris, the psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, the proofreader Mustapha Ourrad, Michel Renaud, co-founder of the festival Rendez-vous du carnet de voyage and the policeman Franck Brinsolaro.
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On Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, the tribute continued with the memory of police lieutenant Ahmed Merabet killed by the Kouachi brothers while he tried to stop them in their flight. Finally, Porte de Vincennes (XXth arrondissement), in front of the kosher supermarket targeted on January 9, 2015 by an attack perpetrated by another jihadist, Amédy Coulibaly, who had killed three Jewish customers and an employee.
The ceremony was held in the presence of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse and the prefect of police Didier Lallement. In accordance with the wishes of the families of the victims, no speech was made at the three places of meditation. After reading the names of the dead, laying wreaths and a minute of silence, the Marseillaise resounded in the cold of Paris.
” Never forget them », Commented Anne Hidalgo on Twitter.
It is the echo that this has beyond here that is important, it is that we talk about it elsewhere, to the youngest in schools …
Testimony of a journalist who came to pay tribute to the victims
A tribute that recalls the fight for freedom of the press and freedom of expression, elementary rights to be defended even today.
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