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Attackers used petrol bombs to destroy the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, after it published an issue with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover. The magazine had received threats prior to the attack and its website was hacked.

A magistrate will decide whether the case of nuclear physicist Adlene Hicheur, who has spent two years in prison since his arrest for links with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, will go to a prosecutor. Hicheur reportedly corresponded with an AQIM member and considered targeting French businesses and a French Army brigade.