Five years later, the tribute to the victims of the January 2015 attacks - 20 Minutes

Five years later, sober tributes were paid this Tuesday to the victims of the January 2015 attacks at Charlie Hebdo , Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher. A hundred people gathered from 11 a.m. on rue Nicolas-Appert, in front of the former Charlie Hebdo premises where, at the same time day to day, the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi killed 11 people before fleeing in shouting "We avenged the prophet Mohamed", who had been caricatured in the satirical newspaper.

This January 7, 2015, emblematic figures of the newspaper, like its director and designer Charb, the caricaturists Cabu, Wolinksi, Honoré, Tignous and the economist Bernard Maris, were coldly shot. Their names as well as those of the chronicler and psychiatrist Elsa Cayat, of the bodyguard of Charb Franck Brinsolaro, of the corrector of the newspaper Mustapha Ourrad and of a passing visitor, Michel Renaud, were read, in front of their families and their close relations .

"The memory of this terrible day in January is still present"

At the forefront, the Ministers of the Interior Christophe Castaner, of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, and of Culture Franck Riester, accompanied by the Secretary of State Laurent Nuñez and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo. “Five years already, and the memory of this terrible day in January is still present. I think of all those who lost their lives on January 7, 2015 because they represented laughter and freedom. That day, I also lost friends. #JeSuisCharlie ”, tweeted former President of the Republic François Hollande, also invited.

Wreath laying, minutes of silence, Marseillaise : the same ritual, soberly at the request of the families, was then repeated on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where police lieutenant Ahmed Merabet was shot dead by the Kouachi brothers, then carried de Vincennes in front of the Hyper Cacher store, where Amédy Coulibaly killed four men, all Jewish, during a hostage-taking on January 9, 2015. Another ceremony of homage to the victims of the Hyper Cacher, organized by the Council representative of the Jewish institutions of France (Crif), is scheduled for Thursday.

The fourteen suspects suspected of having provided logistical support to the Kouachi brothers and Amédy Coulibaly will be tried in Paris from May 4 to July 10 before a special assize court.

Media

“Charlie Hebdo” attack: Five years later, the newspaper attacks “new gurus of formatted thought”

Culture

Helicopter crash in Mali: Charlie Hebdo defends his "satirical spirit"

  • Kouachi Brothers
  • Terrorist attack
  • Terrorism
  • Charlie Hebdo
  • Paris
  • Society