One year ago today terrorists attacked the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and then the Jewish supermarket Hyper Casher. Seventeen people died that day, some of whom were simply in the wrong place at the time. A moving documentary was shown on BBC tv last night with many eye witness accounts, CCTV footage and live recordings of the killers speaking to journalists and police. The three terrorists all claimed to be "avenging the Prophet" for the depictions in the magazine and the attacks on Syria. Police warned of further attacks but still had no idea about the Bataclan assault eight months later. These attacks have changed our lives here in France but on a day when reports of 40000 people being starved to death in a siege of the town of Madaya by Al Assad's troops in Syria we can only hope for a quick resolution to the conflict there before security is restored here.
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