Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks: ten years later, tributes and remembrances throughout the country

Hommage à Charlie Hebdo sur la façade de l'Hôtel de Région, à Montpellier – Y.H./Région Occitanie

Seventeen killed, twenty-two injured, by the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly, on January 7, 8 and 9, 2015, at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the Hyper Cacher or in Montrouge. France has not forgotten.

The victims of the attacks perpetrated in the offices of Charlie Hebdo or the Hyper Cacher, in Paris, ten years ago, will occupy everyone's minds this Tuesday.

It will indeed be difficult to ignore the wave of tributes that, on January 7, and in the following days, will mark this anniversary. Ceremonies and initiatives of all kinds, of which we present here an anthology, without any claim to be exhaustive, as the examples abound. All over France, in Occitania in particular.

National celebrations

The head of state, Emmanuel Macron, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, members of the government, Parisian elected officials… They will all meet this Tuesday, starting at 11:30 a.m., on rue Nicolas-Appert in Paris, the address of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo (the new one remains unknown), for the first official national celebrations. They will continue on boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where police officer Ahmed Merabet was killed by the Kouachi brothers as they were leaving the satirical weekly’s offices, and then at Porte de Vincennes, in front of the Hyper Cacher store.

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Reading of a commemorative plaque, laying of a wreath, minute of silence, national anthem, greetings to families, no speeches: sobriety will be the order of the day at each of these events, the families wanted it that way, indicated the Paris city hall.
And let us also point out that on Wednesday, the city of Montrouge will also organize a ceremony to pay tribute to the municipal police officer killed by Amedy Coulibaly.

Everywhere in the Occitanie Region

Here again, it is impossible to list all the gatherings announced for this day in Occitanie, from Toulouse to Montpellier. The regional community has in any case decided to organize a week of tributes and contemplation to commemorate these events.

Thus, starting Tuesday, the exhibition of drawings will be launched Border lineon the forecourt of the Hôtel de Région in Montpellier. Building on which, all week until January 11, projections of images and drawings retracing these tragic days will be organized from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The same will be true on the façade of the Hôtel de Région in Toulouse.

This exhibition Border line, organized in partnership with the Press Club and the SNCF, will also be presented on Wednesday at the Gare Saint-Roch in Montpellier, from where a train will leave for Toulouse, with cartoonists on board, to raise awareness of this discipline among the general public.

Further details that the City of Montpellier will remember, this Tuesday, on the forecourt of the Hôtel de Ville, where an exhibition Je suis Charlie will be unveiled at 1:30 p.m.: around fifteen photographs have been brought together around an original poster created by Man, a Montpellier press cartoonist well known to readers of Midi Libre.

A special issue of Charlie Hebdo

We've been waiting for it, it will be on newsstands everywhere this Tuesday, the special issue that the weekly is dedicating to the tenth anniversary of the tragedy that struck its editorial staff (ten employees or guests of the newspaper and a maintenance worker were killed) on January 7, 2015.
A special issue of 32 pages, in which will be published caricatures selected during an international competition called #RireDeDieu, launched last November.

To be discovered this morning on newsstands.