London | French political leaders have marked the 10th anniversary of the brutal terrorist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, just as a spate of fresh atrocities worldwide revives memories of the violence-plagued 2010s.
President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo led a solemn ceremony outside Charlie Hebdo’s former offices, where on January 7, 2015, two al-Qaeda gunmen killed 12 people, including some of the magazine’s celebrated cartoonists and a police officer.
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