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Back from Paris

Jeremy Loeb
WCQS's Michelle Keenan holding up issues of "Charlie Hebdo" she picked up in Paris

WCQS's Michelle Keenan picked up a couple of issues of Charlie Hebdo during her trip to Paris.  The satirical magazine was the target of a terrorist attack in Paris, France on January 7, 2015.  Two radicals with assault rifles stormed the magazine headquarters and killed 11 staff members and injured 11 others in apparent retaliation for the magazine's depiction of Muhammed, which is forbidden in some interpretations of Islam.  That spawned a rallying cry of "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") across the globe.