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They were all there, almost. As every Wednesday. Met between chouquettes and growing around the large oval table which occupies the entire room for writing conference. An unchanging ritual since the creation of Charlie Hebdo . On the left, as always, Charb, the director of the publication. This Wednesday, January 7 were seated at his side the designers Cabu, Wolinski, Tignous, Honoré and Riss, editors Laurent Léger, Fabrice Nicolino and Philippe Lançon, the economist Bernard Maris or the columnists Sigolène Vinson and Elsa Cayat.
The editorial meeting usually starts at 10 am and 30 runs quickly thanks to a few dirty jokes. One taboo: the coffee machine, because it never works. The walls are pinned some “one” legendary satirical newspaper: that of “Sharia Hebdo”, which motivated arson that destroyed the former premises of the weekly, in November 2011, another on Marine Le Pen illustrated by a “shit” on the French flag, a caricature of Pope denounced pedophilia in the Church, a grinning Sarkozy …
The meeting ends when it ends, that is to say when the time to go grab a bite to Our Gang, a bistro in the rue Amelot, in the 11 th arrondissement of Paris.
L One of the attackers said: “Charb? “He shot Charb. Then they shelled all the names and shot burst
This Wednesday, January 7, nobody went to lunch with Our Gang. The meeting had started an hour ago when two masked men burst in the middle pencils, silencing the happy hubbub. They were armed with assault rifles. One of the attackers said: “ Charb? “. He shot Charb. Then they shelled the names of the members of the editorial, and shot in bursts. In the words of the survivors, they shouted “Allahu akbar” and “You are going to pay because you have insulted the Prophet” . A Sigolène Vinson, they said, a gun to his head: “You is not kill you because we do not kill women, but you read the Qur’an. “
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greeting premonitory
Sept writers and cartoonists died in seconds Cabu, Charb, Tignous, Wolinski, Bernard Maris, Honoré and Elsa Cayat a woman yet, analyst and columnist. Mustapha Ourrad, Kabyle checker who had obtained French nationality a month earlier, was also murdered. Franck Brinsolaro, one of two police officers who ensures the security of Charb continuously since the attack in November 2011, was also killed, as Michel Renaud, former Chief of Staff of Clermont-Ferrand mayor, invited by the editor.
A 11 h 28, minutes before the killing, the weekly published premonitory vows on Twitter: a drawing of Honoré representing Al-Baghdadi, the leader of Daesh, together with the comment “And above all health! “
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The designer died soon after with his friends on the large oval table, where also the cartoonists scratching their latest designs days of closure where are the last choice of “a” in an outpouring of good words and dirty jokes. “ They shot Wolinski, Cabu … it lasted five minutes … I had taken refuge under a desk …” tells L’Humanité a survivor, the designer Corinne Rey, called “Coco”.
In their killing spree, the attackers had shot a few minutes before one of the maintainers of the building on the ground floor, Frédéric Boisseau, 42 . A second wounded policeman Ahmed Merabet, will be completed by a bullet in the head while trying to stop release of the killers, a little later, Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.
” Carnage indescribable “
Twelve dead in all, eleven wounded, four seriously. Philippe Lançon was severely hit in the face, shoulder Riss, Fabrice Nicolino leg. Simon Fieschi, the young webmaster to manage the “shit storm”, the insults addressed to dump writing for years on social networks and telephone is the most severely affected. A “unspeakable carnage” , according to a witness who could enter writing after the shooting
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Once there shortly after the killing, emergency physicians described “war wounds”. “I’ve never seen that in my career,” demonstrates one of them: “It is ground (…) but not live in reality . “” The darkest day of the French press of history “, a hot summary, at the foot of the building, Christophe Deloire, director of Reporters Without Borders. This is also the bloodiest attack that hit France for half a century.
The mist was tenacious and cold Wednesday morning when two men dressed in black and bulletproof vests appeared visibly ill informed, before the number 6 of Nicolas Appert-street, two doors of the premises of Charlie Hebdo . They took advantage of the arrival of the postmistress, who was given a registered mail to rush in the door, tells the employee of an audiovisual company, the archives workshop, installed in the building. They sit postmistress and an employee who had recovered the fold
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Countless death threats
Then they asked: “This is where Charlie Hebdo? “. They fired a bullet that passed through the glass door of an office. The employee who was there came out in the hallway and exchanged a brief look with the two men.
Realizing they were wrong building, the attackers emerged and appeared before the number 10, the address where found refuge satirical newspaper since 1 st July 2014. Fully aware of the day and the time of writing conference “Charlie” the attackers are however less informed about the exact location of their offices.
According to the Paris prosecutor, they meet in the building’s lobby two cleaners, ask them where Charlie Hebdo , before a shoot. They then take hostage Coco, located on the stairs. The designer is trying to mislead by taking them to the third floor, while the writing is on the second.
Since the bombing of 2011 and the countless death threats received by its drafting, Charlie Weekly reported its undetectable premises. The proud display that adorned the entrance to its former premises on fire in the 20 th arrondissement, now covered with soot, was repatriated within the editor. On the door of the landing gives access to the log, no mention of the title of the publication. “Rotary Editions” is written. The neighbors, themselves, were asked not to publicize the presence of sulfur periodically in the building.
“We killed” Charlie Hebdo “! “
According to an employee of First lines, a production company based in front of the writing of” Charlie “on the second floor, the two assailants astray in the third threatened to cross their weapons tenant in corridor. Always with the same question, haunting: “Where’s Waldo? “. They will eventually find the right door. It is the designer Coco who, under the threat of a weapon, must agree to enter the code in the security door which gives access to the editor.
After the killings, the two attackers are engulfed in a Citroen C3 Black parked down the newspaper. A witness told the investigators that he saw an accomplice, arrived on the crime scene aboard the C3 but left scooter. Both shooters them flee by green Allée, an alley. There they meet a first ATV police patrol. Shots were exchanged, which will no injuries.
A video shot by First line workers, refugees on the roof of the building after the first shots, recorded the shooting. It is believed hear “Allahu akbar” between two bursts. The attackers then cross the road of Pelee Street police vehicle. Follows a second burst shooting. Another amateur video allows to clearly hear the cries: “The Prophet Mohamed was avenged, was killed Charlie Hebdo ! “
This is Boulevard Richard-Lenoir their furious will escape his latest victim. The scene was captured by a third home video. It shows two men equipped with bulletproof vests and armed with assault rifles out of a black Citroen and run towards a police officer fell to the ground, probably hit by a shot. “You want to kill us? request one of the shooters . – Nah, it’s good leader “, says the policeman to the ground. The hooded man passes by and the blind by a bullet in the head with an assault rifle without even slow its course. The victim, Merabet Ahmed, 42, was a peacekeeper at the police 11 th arrondissement.
The two killers then return to their vehicle, calmly, without any signs of panic, like men trained to fight. The scene looks like a workout for commando. One sits at the wheel, the other takes the time to pick up a basketball fell from the door and sits in the passenger seat
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“I thought to firecrackers”
Lorenzo (who requested anonymity) lives Boulevard Richardson Lenoir. His window overlooks the scene where the officer was shot. It tells the World “Around 11 h 30, I heard gunshots. I thought it was firecrackers, I approached the window. There were plenty of police officers gathered in the middle of the boulevard, but also cycling people passing. It was a normal morning, “ remembers the young man
He continues. ” On the right, I saw a dark car stopped in the middle of the street. Two men dressed in black came out with balaclavas, armed with black rifles. A policeman fired at them. The two men also fired. The police officer was shot and fell with a cry. He tried to run away but fell face against the ground. The attackers ran towards him. One arrived at its height, and shot him in the head. Then they are back in the car. “
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The Citroen then rushes to the north of Paris. Place du Colonel Fabien, it collides violently conducting a Volkswagen Touran. Its two occupants eventually hastily abandon their vehicle after embedded in posts to the street level of Meaux, in the 19 th arrondissement, forgetting onboard identification that will lead to their identification and an empty magazine with Kalashnikovs and other personal belongings. Then they shine a driver of a Clio, seized the car and resume their flight. The police will lose track Porte de Pantin.
But three suspects in the killing, Kouachi Said, 34, his brother Kouachi Cherif, 32, and Mourad Hamyd, 18, are quickly identified. Raid and IFNU operations were underway in Reims and Charleville-Mezieres in the night from Wednesday 7 to Thursday, January 8th. A call to witness with the photo of the two brothers was released by police. The youngest of the suspects, Mourad Hamyd, appeared voluntarily at night in Charleville-Mezieres police station, “to explain” , according to the Paris prosecutor.
They were all there, or almost, Wednesday, January 7 to Charlie Hebdo editorial conference . Rare are absent today mourning. Willem designer learned of the tragedy in a train between Lorient and Paris. His allergy editorial conferences saved his life. Journalist Zineb was she, on vacation in Morocco, the country of origin. “The survivors like me are just a coincidence, she says by phone at World. I still do not seem to realize that we will never Charb, Cabu, Tignous and others … Almost all the designers are dead. How are we going to do? “
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