France remembers victims of attacks
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French President Francois Hollande has honored 17 victims killed in Islamic extremist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kosher market and police a year ago this week, unveiling plaques around Paris marking violence that ushered in a tumultuous year.
Yesterday鈥檚 ceremonies come as Charlie Hebdo is releasing a special anniversary issue laced with obscene and offensive cartoons, its surviving artists and columnists vaunting their freedom to lampoon everyone from Muslim fundamentalists to politicians and priests.
Victims鈥 families joined Hollande and other dignitaries near the building where Charlie Hebdo staff were holding an editorial meeting when two heavily armed brothers stormed in on January 7, 2015, killing 11 people. The plaque begins with: 鈥淭o the memory of victims of the terrorist attack against freedom of expression.鈥
They then paid homage to a police officer killed as he tried to chase down the fleeing gunmen. Spray painted on the sidewalk was a message of support for the Muslim officer, reading 鈥淛e suis Ahmed,鈥 or 鈥淚 am Ahmed,鈥 in the red, white and blue of the French flag.
After the attacks, people around the world embraced the expression 鈥淛e suis Charlie鈥 to express solidarity with the slain journalists, targeted for the paper鈥檚 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Hollande then paid homage to four people killed at a kosher supermarket in an attack that revived concerns about anti-Semitism in the country with Europe鈥檚 largest Jewish community.
The French president briefly met with some of the survivors of the attack inside the supermarket, including Lassana Bathily, a Mali-born employee who hid a group of hostages in the store鈥檚 underground stockroom.
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