On January 7, 2015, at 11: 30 a.m. : an attack on the assault rifle is launched at Charlie-Hebdo, killing 12 people including 8 journalists and 2 police officers, and 11 wounded.
The next day, in 8 hours : fire with kalashnikovs burst in Montrouge ; a young police officer is gunned down from the back, and an agent of the landfill is seriously reached.
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January 9 to 13 hours : a hostage is launched to the very Hide of the avenue de la Porte-de-Vincennes ; 4 people are killed, 4 other customers were seriously injured. All of them were jews.
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The 10 and 11 January 2015 : 4 million people marched peacefully everywhere in France ; more than forty heads of State meet in Paris, fashion shows of support have place in the world, from Berlin to Buenos Aires. “I’m a cop, I am jewish, I am Charlie,” can it be read on the placards.
A country shaken
Checking the recovery of a fateful series of islamist attacks, three years after the odious expedition of Mohammed Merah, in Toulouse, these five winter days have shaken the country. Follow Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, The Bataclan, Magnanville, the promenade des Anglais, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Carcassonne, Trèbes…
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Five years have passed, the time has come for justice to pass. Effective September 2, before the assize court special of Paris, 5 professional judges will judge the 14 accused – 3 others, including the girlfriend of Coulibaly, Hayat Boumeddiene, is still subject to arrest warrants, the case of a fourth have been disjointed. They are all suspected to various degrees of having assisted the perpetrators of the atrocities of January 2015, the brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly, shot dead after having sown death and terror.
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two and a half months of the hearing will be taped. Proof, if any were needed, of their historical dimension. That remains-t-il of these bloody episodes, if not the trauma that they have created ? The Point has surveyed, interviewed the survivors, challenged the consciences. With, always in mind, this question is heady : the terrorists have won ?§
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