On January 7, 2015, the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred.

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Oh boy do I remember the apologists for the killers of editorial cartoonists, including writers and others who should have known better. As if speech is the same as violence, or justifies killing. Fine essay by
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Imagine a Fist Punching Down at Dead Cartoonists Forever

Five years later, it’s clear that the response to the Charlie Hebdo attack normalized anti-free speech ideas that have become more influential in progressive discourse

By Jacob Siegel
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2015 Charlie Hebdo Attacks Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research

Updated 8:37 PM ET, Fri December 20, 2019

(CNN) -- Here is some background information about the January 2015 terror attacks in Paris. From January 7 to January 9, a total of 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a kosher grocery store, and the Paris suburb of Montrouge. Three suspects in the attacks were killed by police in separate standoffs.

Facts

The Charlie Hebdo magazine began publishing in 1970 with the goal of satirizing religion, politics, and other topics. Most employees came from the publication Hara-Kiri, which was banned after it mocked the death of former President Charles de Gaulle.

The Charlie in the title references Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, meaning weekly, in French.

The magazine ceased publication in the 1980s due to lack of funds. It resumed publishing in 1992.

In 2006, Charlie Hebdo reprinted controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that originally appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. French President Jacques Chirac criticized the decision and called it "overt provocation."

In 2011, the magazine's offices were destroyed by a gasoline bomb after it published a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.

Profiles of the seventeen victims.

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