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Thursday, January 15, 2015

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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