The Charlie in the title references Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, meaning weekly, in French.
The magazine ceased publication in the 1980s due to lack of funds. It resumed publishing in 1992.
In 2006, Charlie Hebdo reprinted controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that originally appearing in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. French President Jacques Chirac criticized the decision and called it “overt provocation.”
In 2011, the magazine’s offices were destroyed by a gasoline bomb after it published a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.
Profiles of the seventeen victims.
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— Bulgaria arrests Frenchman Fritz-Joly Joachin on a European arrest warrant, citing alleged ties to terrorists and a possible connection to the Kouachi brothers.
January 14, 2015 –
— Charlie Hebdo releases a new edition of its magazine, featuring a cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammed on the cover, holding a sign that says “Je suis Charlie.”
— AQAP claims responsibility for the operation carried out on Charlie Hebdo. Commander Nasr Ibn Ali al-Ansi says in a video statement ,”We clarify to the Islamic world that the one who chose the target, laid the plan, financed the operation and appointed its amir, is the leadership of the organization” adding that the arrangements for the operation were made by Anwar al-Awlaki “who threatens the west both in his life and after his martyrdom. Al-Ansi identifies both Cherif and Said Kouachi by name describing them as “heroes” and adds that “it was a blessing from Allah” that the operation coincided with the siege carried out by Amedy Coulibaly on the Kosher market.
— French security services identify a fourth man suspected of involvement in the Paris attacks, according to the French newspaper, Le Parisien. The newspaper says the man may have been an accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly and driven him to the kosher supermarket.
