Three days of Islamist terrorist attacks from 7 to 9 January in France.

Just before midday local time on 7 January in Paris, two masked men armed with AK-series assault rifles entered the office building of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdoand began shooting, while a third person remained outside.

Thousands of people gather at Republique Square in Paris on 11 January for a rally to honour the 17 victims of the terrorist attacks. On 14 January.

 The attackers were subsequently identified as 32-year-old Chérif Kouachi and his brother, 34-year-old Saïd Kouachi, both French nationals of Algerian descent. They killed 11 people in the office, including four of the magazine's well-known cartoonists and a police bodyguard, and wounded 11 others.

Approximately 10 minutes after entering the office, they re-emerged and shot at police in the street before fleeing in a getaway car, driven by a third, as yet unidentified, person.

They then engaged police on two more occasions shortly afterwards, injuring and then killing one police officer, before fleeing towards northern Paris, where they hijacked a different vehicle near Porte de Pantin.

Two days later, on 9 January, after an extensive manhunt across the northeast of the country, security forces cornered the Kouachi brothers in a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goële, north of Paris, leading to a stand-off that lasted several hours. During this time, French television channel BFM-TV contacted the assailants, who then claimed the attack had been directed and financed by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).