6048 x 4016 px | 51,2 x 34 cm | 20,2 x 13,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
8. Januar 2015
Ort:
Leichlingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Weitere Informationen:
On the morning of 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 local time, two masked gunmen armed with assault rifles and other weapons forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. They fired up to 50 shots, killing 11 people and injuring 11 others, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is [the] greatest") during their attack. They also killed a French National Police officer shortly after. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, which took responsibility for the attack. Five others were killed and another eleven were wounded in related shootings that followed in the Île-de-France region. France raised Vigipirate (its terror alert) to its highest level, and deployed soldiers in Île-de-France and Picardy. A massive manhunt led on 9 January to the discovery of the suspects, brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, who exchanged fire with police. The brothers took hostages at a signage company in Dammartin-en-Goële, and were gunned down when they emerged firing from the building. On 11 January, about 2 million people, including more than 40 world leaders, met in Paris for a rally of national unity, and 3.7 million people joined demonstrations across France. The phrase Je suis Charlie (French for "I am Charlie") was a common slogan of support at the rallies and in social media. The remaining staff of Charlie Hebdo continued publication, and the following issue sold out seven million copies in six languages, in contrast to its typical French-only print run of 60, 000.
