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Candles and a placard which reads "I am Charlie" are pictured as tributes to victims at the French embassy at Pariser Platz in Berlin January 7, 2015, following a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Hooded gunmen stormed on Wednesday the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) a weekly satirical magazine known for lampooning radical Islam, killing at least 12 people, including two police officers in the worst militant attack on French soil in recent decades. A police union official said the assailants remained at liberty and there were fears of further attacks. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

In what is believed was a terrorist attack this morning in Paris, 12 people were killed including two police officers, 4 cartoonistas and EIC himslef, Charlie Hebdo, inside the premises of the weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Recent reports indicate that the publication had been subject of numerous threats by Islam groups as a reaction of Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoons. Witnesses told bypassers and media they heard the two attackers scream they were from al-Qaeda, and while this has not been confirmed, President Francois Hollande released a statement condemning the heinous acts, which were irrefutably “a terrorist attack.”

Thousands of civilians now stand in the streets of Paris to show their solidarity and union, and social media is flooded with condolences, laments and help offerings for the country. World leaders, journalists and celebrities have all shown their support, outraged by the tragic events:

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