Around 11 am, two hooded men and equipped with Kalashnikov broke in Charlie Hebdo’s offices, in central Paris – according to the reconstruction made by a journalist called Benoît Bringer and other witnesses – they fled about 5 minutes later leaving twelve people dead (including the director Stéphane Charbonnier).

Inquiries and the manhunt led to the killing of the two suspects. There is who believes that the attack was a sort of response to a satiric image that was published on twitter the same day and around the same time the two gunmen broke in: in the cartoon, Islamic State’s leader al Baghdadi is depicted with the words “Best wishes. To Al-Baghdadi too” and he replies saying “health first of all”. Nevertheless, it is not clear yet whether the cartoon was posted before or after the attack.

Charlie Hebdo’s offices were also targeted during the night between the 1st and the 2nd of November in 2011, in response to the edition that was to be issued the next day about elections in Tunisia.

World’s leaders expressed their solidarity and condemned the attack via press-releases, TV and social networks. It is quite perceivable, though, the fact that concern is mounting on due to the possibility of similar assaults happening again somewhere else.

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