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Armed with assault guns and launch-grenades, the hooded terrorists infiltrated the building where the journalist held their weekly editorial meeting.
Reports indicate that terrorists were targeting very specific people, given that they already knew the names of some of the journalists and their attack was directed at them. Among the deceased was the editor of the magazine, two policemen and three illustrators.
"Le Monde" has published the list of all the victims, while police continue to hunt for three suspects:
Jean Cabut, cartoonist
Georges Wolinski, cartoonist
Stéphane Charbonnier, cartoonist and publisher
Bernard Verlhac, cartoonist and publisher
Philippe Honoré, cartoonist
Bernard Maris, economist and contributor
Mustapha Ourrad, editor
Elsa Cayat, psychoanalyst and contributor
Michel Renaud, former cabinet chief of the mayor of Clermont
Ahmed Merabet, police officer
Franck Brinsolaro, police bodyguard
Frédéric Boisseau, technician
"We received threats by email all the time as well as phone calls, but we don't take them seriously. We became accustomed ( ) over the past few years, we thought the threats were over" said one of the journalists who was not present during the attack.
Charlie Hebdo became internationally famous in 2006 thanks to a Mahoma post, founding prophet of the Islam. Some of the witnesses claim to have heard a shout saying "we have avenged the prophet" just before the left the building in a black car.
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