Charlie Hebdo’s Editor Killed In Attack On French Satirical Newspaper

FILE - In this Nov.2, 2011 file photo satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo's editor in chief, Charb, answers reporters in front of the headquarters of the newspaper, in Paris. Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar... FILE - In this Nov.2, 2011 file photo satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo's editor in chief, Charb, answers reporters in front of the headquarters of the newspaper, in Paris. Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday Jan.7, 2015, killing 12 people including the editor and a cartoonist before escaping. It was France's deadliest terror attack in at least two decades.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) MORE LESS

By Catherine Thompson

January 7, 2015 10:02 a.m.

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The editor of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was killed in an attack on its central Paris offices Wednesday, the city prosecutor’s office confirmed.

Spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said the 12 dead in the attack included editor Charb, whose real name is Stéphane Charbonnier and who was one of the newspaper’s cartoonists, as well as another cartoonist who went by the pen name Cabu, according to the Associated Press.

The AP reported that two police officers were included in the death toll. Thibault-Lecuivre confirmed to the news agency that one of the slain officers was assigned to guard Charb after the editor received death threats.

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Catherine Thompson (@kt_thomps) Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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littlegirlblue says:

January 7, 2015

The cover of the newspaper on Wednesday featured a caricature of Michel Houellebecq, a controversial novelist whose sixth novel, “Submission,” predicts a future France run by Muslims, in which women forsake Western dress and polygamy is introduced. On the cover, Mr. Houellebecq is depicted as a wizard and smoking a cigarette. “In 2022, I will do Ramadan,” he is shown saying.

Loose translation of first cartoon bubble: “In 2015 I lose my teeth”

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