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Charlie Hebdo headquarters targeted for a second time

The scene of the shooting in Paris
The scene of the shooting in Paris

This morning’s gun attack in Paris was the second timeĀ French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been targeted.

The magazine has a history of causing controversy with cartoons of Islamā€™s prophet Mohammed.

Charlie Hebdo is a weekly political and social French newspaper with no adverts and its content is not influenced by external shareholders.

Its offices were firebombed three years ago after it published a special edition titled Charia Hebdo and ā€œinvitedā€ the Prophet Mohammed as its guest editor.
No one was injured in the attack.

Speaking to the BBC after the attack in November 2011, the paperā€™s editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier said the incident had only confirmed that it was right to take the stance that it did.

He said: ā€œThis tells me we are right to publish the magazine, and we are right to continue defying Islamists and make their lives difficult as much as they do ours.

ā€œIf we can poke fun at everything in France, if we can talk about anything in France apart from Islam or the consequences of Islamism, that is annoying.ā€

Mr Charbonnier – also known as Charb – said the attack was the act of ā€œidiot extremistsā€ and not representative of all Muslims who live in France.

In 2007, Charlie Hebdo reprinted 12 controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that were first shown in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and caused outrage in the Muslim world.

The magazine was sued for incitement to racism by two Islamic groups in France, but was cleared by a Paris court.
Mr Charbonnier insisted that the publication of Mohammad caricatures was no provocation, but a signal that free speech was alive and well in the country.

He also said the paper would not stop criticising whatever it wanted.

On its Facebook page, the paper is described as ā€œweekly satirical, political and social, without ads and or external influencesā€.