Overview

On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, the Kouachi brothers entered the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo and killed eleven people. They wounded eleven others and, during their escape, executed a police officer lying on the ground. A third terrorist then murdered four people in a supermarket. The impact of these events was profound, both in France and abroad. More than four million people took to the streets during rallies held on January 10 and 11.