Agency Report
Berlin – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has commemorated the victims of the Islamist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which occurred 10 years ago on Tuesday.
“We sympathize with our French friends today, as we did back then,” Scholz wrote on X. “The attack was aimed at our shared values of freedom and democracy.”
“We will never accept that,” Scholz added, condemning what he called a “barbaric attack.”
A total of 17 people were killed in the shooting at the magazine on January 7, 2015, as well as in connected attacks on a police officer and a kosher supermarket in the days that followed. The three perpetrators were shot and killed by security forces.
Twelve people lost their lives in the attack on Charlie Hebdo alone, in which two brothers opened fire in the editorial office and caused a bloodbath.
