Charlie Hebdo

…at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satiric magazine. The deadly violence focused attention on the threat posed by militant Islam, but the response to the attacks by the French was generally one of solidarity rather than reprisal.

…offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, including senior members of the editorial staff, in retribution for the magazine’s provocative portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad. The attackers fled the scene, triggering a manhunt that ended two days later in a village outside Paris when both were killed…

…Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had that week published an issue featuring a caricature of Houellebecq on the cover. His next novel, Sérotonine (2019: Serotonin), centers on a depressed agricultural engineer who moves to the countryside amid mounting social unrest. The work, which is highly critical of…

…assault on the satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo and the November 13, 2015, attacks. Special police agencies include detective and counterespionage services and the State Security Police (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité), used for dispersing demonstrations. The Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine), a mounted squadron of spurred, helmeted, plumed, and breast-plated guardsmen armed…

The satiric weekly Charlie Hebdo long had a reputation of skewering political and religious figures, and its relatively low circulation numbers belied its cultural influence. Its depiction of the Prophet Muhammad drew a violent response from Islamist militants—the magazine was firebombed in 2011, and a deadly shooting in…