A French flag flies half-mast at the Elysee Palace in Paris on January 8, 2015, on a day of mourning following an attack on January 7 by armed gunmen on the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. - AFP
A stunned and outraged France was in mourning Thursday, as security forces desperately hunted two brothers suspected of gunning down 12 people in an Islamist attack on a satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
The massacre, the country’s bloodiest attack in half a century, triggered poignant and spontaneous demonstrations of solidarity around the world.
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