"I had ten minutes to do my business and leave my home. Ten minutes to give up part of his existence, it's a bit short, and it's very violent. I will not be coming home," said Charlie Hebdo's human resources director at Le Point. 

Marika Bret was exfiltrated from her home because of threats considered serious, she explained, Monday, September 21, in an interview.

These "precise and detailed threats" were received on September 14 by the security officers who have been protecting it for almost 5 years.  

An exfiltration which "reflects the unprecedented level of tension with which we are confronted", notes the director of human resources of the French newspaper, underlining "a level of hallucinatory hatred around Charlie Hebdo".

"Since the start of the trial and with the republication of the cartoons, we have received all kinds of horrors, including threats from Al-Qaeda and calls to finish the work of the Kouachi brothers", testifies Marika Bret.

Al-Qaeda threats 

The terrorist organization Al-Qaeda threatened to attack again Charlie Hebdo, which republished cartoons of the prophet of Islam Muhammad during the trial, claiming that the murderous January 2015 raid on the newspaper "n ' was not a one-off incident ".

The trial on the January 2015 attacks, which continues with a very high level of security, has seen several members of the Charlie Hebdo editorial staff, seriously injured by the terrorists in the attack, take the stand since September 2. army of January 7, 2015. Twelve people were killed during this attack perpetrated by Chérif and Saïd Kouachi.

After the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the Montrouge assassination, the Paris Special Assize Court has plunged, since Monday, into the horror of the Hyper Cacher hostage-taking on January 9, 2015, during which four men, all Jews, were killed.

Fourteen people are on trial for their alleged logistical support to the perpetrators of these attacks.

With AFP

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