FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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Mourning and manhunt after French magazine massacre

Mourning and manhunt after French magazine massacre

PARIS (AFP) - French security forces desperately hunted two brothers Thursday suspected of gunning down 12 people in an Islamist attack on a satirical weekly, as a stunned and outraged France fell silent to mourn the victims.

With thousands of police scouring France after the bloodiest attack in the country for half a century, the two men - still armed - were apparently spotted at a petrol station in the northern Aisne region.
Bells pealed out across France at the stroke of midday, public transport stopped and people gathered outside the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in the pouring rain, holding aloft banners reading "Je Suis Charlie" (I am Charlie).
Television pictures showed children at a Muslim school in the northern city of Lille holding up sheets of paper with "not in my name".
Wednesday's massacre triggered poignant and spontaneous demonstrations of solidarity around the world and more than 100,000 poured onto the streets of France.
Shocked people from Moscow to Washington rallied under the banner "I am Charlie" in support of press freedom and the controversial magazine that has repeatedly lampooned the Prophet Mohammed.
 
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