FRENCH officials and victims’ relatives gathered in front of the former headquarters of the controversial satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Sunday to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the attack that killed many people.
The Charlie Hebdo event is a series of shocking terrorist attacks and mass shootings that happened in France in January 7, 2015.
At that time, the French-born Muslim brothers said (Sa-Eed) and Cherif Kouachi opened fire against Charlie Hebdo journalists, cartoonists and security staff, killing 12 people, after the magazine published some controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad.
The Islamist organization Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack.
To commemorate this day, French officials attended a wreath laying ceremony, among them the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the minister of justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, and the president of the National Assembly of France Yael Braun-Pivet.
Locals present in the event shared their sentiments on the incident, and likened the event on the nine-eleven terrorist attack in United States.
“I was a fan of Charlie-Hebdo, even if I found that they sometimes exaggerated a little too much on the theme of Islamists, there was a bit of provocation but it did not deserve such a massacre. I don’t forgive, I was upset by this killing like everyone else, like the whole world. It surprised everyone, even if we expected it a little, but we were really surprised, a bit like the American September 11th.”
“Forgiving is good, there should still be people who ask for forgiveness, but on the one hand, those who committed this attack have never asked for forgiveness, nor those who supported them, those who helped, those who still today venerate these guys,” according to the Resident, Paris, France.
On the other hand, I believe that today the most important thing is to teach, to teach children, young people, young people history, to teach what happened because today what threatens the Jewish community is the extraordinary ignorance that is spreading in society and particularly among young people.
