'Charlie Hebdo' : The French satirical newspaper attacked be Unidentified Gunmen,killed 12 people

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Recently, the French satirical newspaper 'Charlie Hebdo' has been attacked by two masked gunmen on 7 January 2015 resulting in the death of paper's editor and 11 other people .
The attack was France's deadliest terror attack in at least two decades.
It resulted in the death of newspaper's Chief Editor Charb (real name Stephane Charbonnier) and 3 cartoonists along with 9 others.
The two gunmen, suspected to be Islamist fundamentalists, were however successful in escaping the site.
Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) is renowned for courting controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders and has published numerous cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad.
The last tweet on its account mocked Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant Islamic State, which has taken control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
It has been repeatedly threatened for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, among other controversial sketches, and its offices were firebombed in 2011.