Candlelight vigils across Europe

January 08, 2015 10:46

To bring you up to speed, eight journalists -- including the magazine's editor -- died along with two policemen, a maintenance worker and a visitor when masked men armed with assault rifles stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices.

The magazine has angered some Muslims in the past by printing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The offices were firebombed in 2011.

In the attack yesterday, the gunmen were heard shouting "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad" and "God is Great" in Arabic ("Allahu Akbar").

Candlelight vigils were held in London, Paris and other capital cities in Europe.

Pic: And another cartoon in solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo. Hebdo, incidentally, is slang for weekly in French.

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