Today marks ten years since two brothers walked into the office of Charlie Hebdo and shot dead most of the staff. It was punishment for the satirical magazine’s blasphemous treatment of the Prophet, according to the Islamist gunmen.
The murders shocked the West. Millions of French men and women gathered across the country four days later, and in Paris, world leaders stood alongside President François Hollande in a show of solidarity for the freedom of expression.
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