Magazine Charlie Hebdo said it would release nearly a million copies of a special issue to mark a year since jihadists killed a dozen people in its Paris offices.The 32-page double issue – featuring a selection of drawings by the cartoonists who died in the attack.
The release comes at a time of heightened concern about more attacks in Europe after jihadists with links to the Islamic State group killed 130 people in Paris in November, in a wave of coordinated shootings and explosions.
About Charlie Hebdo
- It is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes.
- The magazine has been the target of two terrorist attacks, in 2011 and 2015.
- Charlie Hebdo first appeared in 1970 as a companion to the monthly Hara-Kiri magazine.
- The magazine’s current editor-in-chief is Gérard Biard.
- Headquarters is in Paris.
- Founded in 1970.
