French weekly Charlie Hebdo marks 10th anniversary of attack with special edition

Reuters - 06/01
The French satirical newsweekly Charlie Hebdo will this week mark 10 years since 12 people died in an attack on its newsroom with a special edition of the magazine.
PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The French satirical newsweekly Charlie Hebdo will this week mark 10 years since 12 people died in an attack on its newsroom with a special edition of the magazine.
On the cover of the 32-page issue, sections of which were released on Monday, a man sits on the butt of a gun in front of the word "Indestructible!".
"Today the values of Charlie Hebdo - such as humour, satire, freedom of expression, ecology, secularism, feminism, to name a few - have never been so under threat," the magazine's editor Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau, who survived the attack, wrote in an editorial, opens new tab.
"Satire possesses a virtue that helped us make it through these tragic years: optimism. If we want to laugh, that means we want to live. Laughing, iro...
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