Minutes of silence and wreath laying to honor the memory of the victims.
Six years after the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks in Paris, tributes in a select committee were paid, Thursday, January 7 in the capital, to the victims of the January 2015 terrorist attacks.
This is the first commemoration ceremony for the January 2015 attacks since the verdict of the Paris Special Assize Court in mid-December, which handed down four-year life sentences to thirteen people convicted to have assisted the authors.
About twenty personalities, including the director of Charlie Hebdo, Riss, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, François Hollande, president at the time of the attacks, and representatives of cults took part in these short tributes marked by minutes of silence and wreath laying, and punctuated by "Marseillaise".
The procession, restricted due in particular to the Covid-19 epidemic and protected by a large police force, first gathered around 11 a.m. rue Nicolas-Appert, in the 11th arrondissement, in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo where, at the same time and six years earlier to the day, the brothers Saïd and Cherif Kouachi had coldly killed 11 people, including emblematic figures of the newspaper such as the director and designer Charb, the cartoonists Cabu, Wolinksi, Honoré, Tignous, the economist Bernard Maris or the columnist and psychiatrist Elsa Cayat.
The procession then gathered a little further, Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where the two attackers, who came to "avenge the prophet" Mohammed who had been caricatured in Charlie Hebdo, killed their 12th victim, a policeman, Ahmed Merabet, before to take flight.
They will be shot two days later by the police in Seine-et-Marne.
The tributes ended shortly before noon at the Hyper Cacher store at Porte de Vincennes, where the names of the four victims - an employee and three customers - were listed on January 9 by Amedy Coulibaly, who was in contact with the Kouachi and will be shot in the onslaught of the police.
"Time passes, the emotion remains intact. Tribute to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack, who fell under fire from Islamist barbarism. For their families, for our values, for our freedom, for France: let's not forget never, "tweeted Gérald Darmanin.
Tribute to the victims of Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher
In memory of the victims of the Hyper Cacher attack, cowardly murdered because they were Jews.
France will never forget.
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- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) January 7, 2021
With AFP
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