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A man has been shot dead after trying to seize a soldier’s weapon at Paris’s Orly airport, French officials say. The 39-year-old was killed by the security forces after attacking a patrol in the airport’s south terminal. The airport has now partially reopened after what the authorities described as an extremely serious incident. The man […]
OPINION – As Europe gathered around the slaughter at Charlie Hebdo and declared as a society that “I am Charlie Hedbo”, they ensured that no matter the consequences and the cost, they would deliver to those responsible one clear message-they would not accept their way of life and freedom of speech to be compromised by the warped interests of a few.
Dozens of world leaders joined more than one million French citizens marching in Paris today amid high security in an unprecedented tribute to victims of this week’s Islamist militant attacks.
Two sieges in France have been brought to a bloody end, with three gunmen and four hostages killed.
On Wednesday, 12 people were shot dead at the headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. On Thursday, a French police officer was shot and killed in the city.
Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack.