Charlie Hebdo shooting

The former offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo occupy a narrow, unassuming building on Rue Nicolas Appert. Its plain gray facade, marked by a simple metal door, provides no external hint of the events of January seventh, twenty fifteen. On that morning, two gunmen forced their way inside, targeting the editorial staff during a planning meeting. Twelve people died in the attack, including several of France’s most prominent political cartoonists. The building remains a stark, quiet site of loss in the eleventh arrondissement.