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France: Anti-terror Alert coded Red after Killing Raid on “Charlie Hebdo” Office.

This morning in Paris 10 people and 2 police men were killed in a raid at the office of the french satire magazine “Charlie Hebdo” in the XI Department.

According the french newspaper “Liberation”, 2 or 3 men entered the office and opened fire. The shootings lastecd for about 10 minutes.

Witnesses reported to “Liberation” they saw masked men entering a neighboring building, opening fire and asking how to enter the office from “Charlie Hebdo”, wich entrance was guarded by the police after “Charlie Hebdo” was attacked in revenge for the caricature of the Prophet Mohamed, published in 2011.

Among the victims were Charb, director of publications; and the caricaturists named Cabu; Wolinski and Tignou. For this wednesday a conference was sheduled at the office, giving the suspition that the raid was plannified.According to a source close to the investigation, contacted by Liberation, the attackers did precisely designate their victims by a person working at the newspaper’s office. In general media is claimed that islamists are responsable for the raid. One of the attackers shouted “Alahu Akbar”. The names of the carcaturists working for “Charlie Hebdo” were also found on Al Qaida hitlists.

The killings in Paris were the worst since WWII, the french authorities rose the anti-terror level for the entire country to the red level, wich is the highest and gives the authorisation to increase police controls on public and higly frequented spaces, for an undetermined period.