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Charlie Hebdo: The French satirical magazine with a history of controversy

FRENCH satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has previously provoked fury for its
controversial and non-conformist content.

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magazine office

Charlie Hebdo - known as a French version of British satirical
publication Private Eye - courted controversy again in September
2012 after it published a series of satirical cartoons of Prophet
Muhammed

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reading: "No god but Allah".

Charlie Hebdo - known as a French version of British satirical
publication Private Eye - courted controversy again in September 2012
after it published a series of satirical cartoons of Prophet Muhammed.

That edition sold out within hours.

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Charlie Hebdo's journalist Gérard Biard commented at the time: "The
caricatures are meant to satirise the video and the violence it has
stirred and to denounce that violence as absurd.