14 January 2015

Charlie Hebdo attack: Print run for new issue expanded

Normally Charlie Hebdo prints 60,000 copies but the planned run increased steadily this week - from one million to three million to five million.

.... The "survivors' issue", as the magazine calls it, is available in six languages including English, Arabic and Turkish. Proceeds are going to victims' families.

President Francois Hollande has insisted the magazine and its values will continue.

"Charlie Hebdo is alive and will live on," he said. "You can assassinate men and women but you will never kill their ideas."

Charlie Hebdo's decision to publish another cartoon of the Prophet drew threats from militant Islamist websites and criticism from the Islamic world. [BBC] Read more