Seven years later, tribute to the victims of Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Kosher

Seven years later, sober tributes and in a select committee were paid this Friday morning in Paris to the victims of the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, the starting point of a wave of jihadist attacks in France.

The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse and the prefect of police Didier Lallement were present, as well as the first deputy of the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo , Emmanuel Grégoire.

The procession, restricted due in particular to the Covid-19 epidemic and protected by a large police force, first gathered around 11 a.m. rue Nicolas-Appert, in the 11th arrondissement, in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo where , at the same time and seven years earlier to the day, the brothers Saïd and Cherif Kouachi had coldly killed 11 people, including emblematic figures of the newspaper such as the director and designer Charb, the cartoonists Cabu, Wolinksi, Honoré, Tignous, the economist Bernard Maris or columnist and psychiatrist Elsa Cayat.

Then a few meters further on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where police lieutenant Ahmed Merabet was killed by the Kouachi brothers while trying to stop them in their flight. They will be shot two days later by the police in Seine-et-Marne.

The tributes ended shortly before noon at the Hyper Cacher store at the Porte de Vincennes, where the names of the four victims – an employee and three customers – were listed on January 9 by Amédy Coulibaly, who was in contact with the Kouachi and will be shot in the onslaught of the police.

In accordance with the wishes of the families of the victims, no speech was made at the three places of meditation: after reading the names of the victims, the laying of wreaths and a minute of silence, the Marseillaise resounded in the cold Parisian .

“Let’s never forget them,” Ms. Hidalgo commented on Twitter.

On social networks too, tributes to the victims of the attacks have poured in. “It was a January morning, seven years ago. I am thinking of our friends from Charlie Hebdo, Ahmed Merabet, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, and the victims of the Hypercacher, ”wrote François Hollande, President of the Republic at the time of the events.

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