Je Suis Charlie

By: Rshwined Scott

     France and the world of journalism received horrible news on January 7th when satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was stormed by three Islamic Frenchmen carrying AK-47’s. Calling the cartoonist by their names, They massacred them one by one. By the end of the attack there were 10 cartoonist and two policemen dead , and no captured murderers. This attack took the world and especially all of France by surprise seeing as France is a country which values freedom including that of expression and speech, extremely highly. This attack was brought on by the newspapers controversial cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

    On January 9th just days after the horrible attack on Charlie hebdo , France suffered another attack this one  A hostage standoff of an Islamic man claiming to  be working along side ISIS; the extremist terrorist group vs Parisian police. The man identified as Coulibaly, attacked a Kosher/Jewish supermarket killing four jewish customers, and critically wounding another four. This was viewed as an Anti-Semantic act by the country seeing as the man stated to the police before being killed that he had specifically chosen the market because of it being Jewish.

   

    French Police and Army is now working on keeping all citizens secure, seeing as ISIS has threatened to keep the attacks coming. All citizen on their part are pledging support to all of those who have died by using the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie


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