Charlie Hebdo Attacks and Social Movements

The Charlie Hebdo attacks refer to the shootings that took place on January 7, 2015, at the offices of the satirical magazine in Paris. The perpetrators, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, were French citizens of Algerian descent who self-identified as belonging to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. They planned the attack as a revenge to the magazine’s lampooning of the Islamic prophet Mohammad. In total, 12 people were killed and 11 were injured, but the victims increased two days after, as 4 customers in a kosher supermarket and one police officer were murdered in a related assault by Amedi Koulibaly, a Malian-French citizen who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)