On January 7, 2015, the editorial staff of “Charlie Hebdo” was attacked

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All it took was a simple tweet.

We are on January 7, 2015 around 11:40 am, the community manager of

indicates that he has spotted a tweet mentioning gunshots not far from the boulevard Richard Lenoir in Paris.

Our deputy editor, who cut her teeth in the editorial staff of the satirical newspaper, immediately makes the connection.

“There is an attack against the editorial staff of

”, she warns within the

.

Since the publication of the cartoons of Muhammad in the satirical weekly, we know that our colleagues are seriously threatened and under police surveillance.

Journalists who have contacts within the

team take all their cell phones trying to reach, in vain, our colleagues from

.

For my part, I try to reach Charb.

We are not friends, but a year earlier, when contacting him to confirm the death of François Cavanna, I had unwittingly announced to him the death of the co-founder of

.

He then shared his emotion with me, and showed both great humanity and a keen sense of professionalism.

This exchange had created a little complicity.

"We don't know who survived or not"

On the AFP wire, an urgent confirms the intuition of our deputy editor-in-chief: the premises of

have been attacked.

All the way to battle in the

.

In culture, we share the writing of potential obituaries.

I slip to my boss, "that of Charb, I can't".

I write that of Cabu that I do not know personally.

We do not know then yet who survived or not.

When the sad list of victims of the attack falls on AFP, it's time to have my obituary read again.

It is around 3 p.m. when I leave the editorial office to take my lunch break.

No sooner have I put my nose outside than I collapse in tears.

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