Gunned down after terrorists asked for them by name, the four cartoonists who mocked Islam and refused to be threatened by 'Koranic law'
- Gunmen storm office in Paris with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades
- Attackers were reportedly heard shouting: 'the Prophet has been avenged'
- 'Stalked office asking people's names before killing editor and cartoonist'
- Killers fled in stolen car after a 'mass shoot-out' with police - still on loose
- Paper previously firebombed for publishing cartoon of Prophet Mohammed
- Charlie Hebdo editor said 'I'd prefer to die standing than live on my knees'
Four
of France's most revered cartoonists - Stephane Charbonnier, Georges
Wolinski, Bernard 'Tignous' Verlhac and Jean Cabut - were among 12
people executed by masked gunmen in Paris today at the offices of
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Two masked men brandishing Kalashnikovs burst into the magazine's headquarters this morning, opening fire on staff.
Police
officers were involved in a gunfight with the men, who escaped in a
hijacked car, speeding away towards east Paris and remain on the loose,
along with a third armed man.
Charbonnier,
47, known by his pen name Charb, was the editor of the weekly magazine,
Cabut, also called Cabu, its lead cartoonist and Wolinski an
80-year-old satirist who had been drawing cartoons since the 1960s.
There are reports that the gunmen asked for the cartoonists by name before shooting them dead.
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Defiant: Stephane
Charbonnier, known by his pen name Charb, was the editor of Charlie
Hebdo, and gunned down by men with assault weapons
Tragic: Georges Wolinski was named by officials as one of those shot dead at the offices of Charlie Hebdo
Lead
cartoonist Jean 'Cabu' Cabut (left) was among the 12 massacred by
terrorists in Paris today, along with Bernard 'Tignous' Verlhac (right)
Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gilet announced on Twitter that a contributor, Bernard Maris, was another of the victims
'Massacre': Two masked gunmen
brandishing Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers attack the headquarters of
French satricial newspaper Charlie Hebdo
Emergency: Police officers and
firefighters gather in front of the offices of the French satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris today after gunmen stormed the building
Masked gunmen seen near the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo before fleeing in a car
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