Paris attacks: Charlie Hebdo cartoonists' funerals held
Funerals have
been held for four people killed in last week's attack in Paris on satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo by militant Islamists. Friends and family paid last
respects to cartoonists Bernard Verlhac, known as Tignous, and Georges
Wolinski, as well as a columnist and a policeman. Pope Francis condemned the
attacks but said there were limits to freedom of expression and people's faith
should not be insulted. Seventeen people died in the attacks. Eight magazine
staff, a visitor to the magazine and a caretaker died, as well as three police
officers and four people at a Jewish supermarket. Al-Qaeda said it had directed
the Charlie Hebdo attack. A
private funeral service was held for Tignous, 57, in the suburb of Montreuil,
ahead of his burial in Pere Lachaise, Paris' best known resting place for writers,
artists and composers. A ceremony was held at Pere Lachaise for Wolinski, who
was to be cremated. I think that is wrong
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