The eye of the media hurricane is in a nondescript office building located between manicured tennis courts, a cultural center and the Paris ring road. A couple of advertising firms are located here, as is a department of the city police which is responsible for traffic tickets. The location is, above all else, discreet. There is no nameplate that refers to the weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo. The publication, which has around 25 employees, is listed on the intercom under a different name. The only difference to the normally quiet atmosphere is that a riot police van is parked outside the building. 
 
 It is here, in the far east of the French capital, that the publisher and editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo have worked since their former editorial offices were destroyed a year ago in an arson attack. Although no one claimed responsibility for the crime, it was apparently motivated by cartoons about Islam that the magazine had published in a special issue under the polemical title "Charia Hebdo," a reference to Islamic Sharia law. 
 
 Now the magazine and its Editor-in-Chief Stéphane Charbonnier, who is also a cartoonist himself, are back in the headlines. The satirical magazine has triggered a storm of indignation with its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad this week. Representatives of the French Council of Muslims, prominent imams and French government officials have all criticized the professional polemicists, who violate political, social and religious taboos on a weekly basis. France has stepped up security at its embassies and other institutions abroad as a precaution. 
 
 The US government also expressed concern at the publication of the cartoons. "We don't question the right of something like this to be published, we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. 
 
 'Extremists Don't Need Any Excuses' 
 
 But Editor-in-Chief Charbonnier, who is known to his colleagues as "Charb," appears relaxed despite the uproar. Surrounded by TV crews from Japan, Qatar, Belgium and South Africa, as well as French journalists, he sits at his desk in the corner of a large room, where he creates his cartoons. He sees himself mainly as a journalist who is just doing his job. "The accusation that we are pouring oil on the flames in the current situation really gets on my nerves," says Charbonnier. "After the publication of this absurd and grotesque film about Muhammad in the US, other newspapers have responded to the protests with cover stories. We are doing the same thing, but with drawings. And a drawing has never killed anyone." 
 
 The cartoonist claims he doesn't want to deliberately provoke anyone. "We publish caricatures every week, but people only describe them as declarations of war when it's about the person of the Prophet or radical Islam," says Charbonnier. "When you start saying that you can't create such drawings, then the same thing will soon apply to other, more harmless representations." 
 
 Issues of the magazine hit newsstands on Wednesday with the front cover showing an Orthodox Jew pushing a figure in a wheelchair wearing a turban. There were several caricatures of the Prophet on the inside pages, including some of him naked. Many Muslims consider any representation of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad offensive. 
 
 Charbonnier doesn't regard the current cover story as a PR stunt or cheap advertising -- even if the print run of 75,000 is already sold out. "Extremists don't need any excuses," he says. "We are only criticizing one particular form of extremist Islam, albeit in a peculiar and satirically exaggerated form. We are not responsible for the excesses that happen elsewhere, just because we practice our right to freedom of expression within the legal limits." Charbonnier describes himself in modest terms: "My job is to provoke laughter or thinking with drawings -- for the readers of our magazine." 
 
 What does he think about the reactions of French Muslims? "If they are not amused by our cartoons, they don't need to buy our magazine. Of course they are allowed to demonstrate. The right to protest needs to be protected, so long as one abides by the law and refrains from violence." Charbonnier believes that French Muslims should be citizens like everyone else, which requires them to also be tolerant. "If the government believes that Muslims have no sense of humor, then that's an insult," he says. "It turns the faithful into second-class citizens." 
 
 No Fear of Reprisals 
 
 Charlie Hebdo has received support from precisely those politicians who are normally the magazine's targets: French conservatives and even Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Front. "Can I allow my country to be reduced to ruins, just because one of the approximately 9,000 titles that are published in France has printed a caricature?" Le Pen said in a television interview Wednesday. "Do we want to live in fear and terror and practice self-censorship?" 
 
 Charbonnier says he found her comments "laughable." He points out that Marine Le Pen does not like to be caricatured herself. 
 
 He also says he does not fear reprisals. So far, only the Charlie Hebdo website, which was hacked on Wednesday, has been attacked. "If we worried about the consequences of each of our drawings in each of our 1,057 issues, then we would have had to close shop a long time ago." Nevertheless, he is grateful for the protection of the police, who he says "politely and with concern" inquired about the contents of the new issue already while it was being printed. "It's crazy," says the cartoonist with a smile. "Of all publications, our magazine, which mocks the police at every opportunity, is now protected by it. Which only goes to show that freedom of speech is protected in our country." 
 
 There will continue to be no taboos at Charlie Hebdo in the future. "It should be as normal to criticize Islam as it is to criticize Jews or Catholics," Charbonnier says. Is he afraid of attacks or violence directed against him and his colleagues? "I have neither a wife nor children, not even a dog. But I'm not going to hide." On Friday, another edition of 75,000 copies will appear. 
 
 Just in case, the phone number of the local police station is posted at the entrance to the editorial offices: "Contact for emergencies." ||||| Following the attack at the newspaper's office in Paris, France mourns the the victims including staff members and visitors. 
 
 Editorial director of Charlie Hebdo and famous cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, known simply as Charb, was one of victims of the attack at the newspaper's Paris office. He had been leading the weekly newspaper since 2012. In 2011, after the newspaper was firebombed following the publication of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammed, Charb told the Associated Press the attacks might have been carried out by "stupid people who don't know what Islam is." He was included in al-Qaeda's most wanted list in 2013. According to French daily Le Monde, Charb had been under police protection since 2011. After Charb received death threats in 2012, he was quoted as saying "I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees." 
 
 This Charb cartoon appeared in the latest issue of the newspaper. Translated, it says, "Still no attack in France," says the title. "Wait!" says the man on the drawing. "We have until the end of January to give our best wishes." Charb dans le Charlie Hebdo de la semaine. Alexandre Hervaud@AlexHervaudFollow Charb dans le Charlie Hebdo de la semaine. 6:56 AM - 07 Jan 15ReplyRetweetFavorite 
 
 Jean Cabut, known as Cabu, was a beloved cartoonist in France whose first cartoons were published in 1954. He contributed to Hara Kiri, a controversial satirical French magazine published in the 1960s. Hara Kiri was banned in 1970 following the death of Charles de Gaulle, and Charlie Hebdo was created soon after. In 2006, Cabu drew a front-cover cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad with the headline "Muhammad overwhelmed by fundamentalists." The newspaper was then sued by a number of Islamic organizations in France. 
 
 Georges Wolinski, 80, was known for his cartoons spoofing politics and sexuality. Like Cabu, George Wolinski started drawing political cartoons for Hara Kiri in the 1960s. Wolinski was born in Tunis, Tunisia, according to the Jewish Daily Forward. His father died when Wolinski was very young, and he said, "The ghost of my father has haunted me all my life," according to an excerpt from his wife's memoir Georges, si tu savais (George, if you only knew). According to Le Monde, Wolinski used to joke: "I want to be incinerated. I told my wife: you'll throw my ashes in the toilet, this way I'll be able to see your butt everyday. " 
 
 The cartoon pokes fun at President Francois Hollande. It makes fake wishes for the new year while making fun of the president's love life and the economic crisis is. The last line says, "Am I on the right track? I'll only know it in the end..." 
 
 Bernard Verlhac, known as Tignous, 57, has been drawing for the press since 1980. He appears to have been a part of network of cartoonists called Cartooning for Peace. A number of his drawings are posted the site. His early cartoons appeared in L'idiot international, La grosse Bertha, and L'événement du jeudi, according to his bio on Cartooning for Peace. 
 
 Bernard Maris, known as "Uncle Bernard" to readers of Charlie Hebo, was killed in the attack. Maris, 68, was a famous left-wing economist who wrote about finance and economics. He was an editor at Charlie Hebdo and a member of the Bank of France's General Council. "This is a barbaric attack on the freedom of the press," Bank of France governor Christian Noyer said in as statement according to NBC News. "Bernard Maris was a cultured, kind and very tolerant man. He will be much missed." He is from Toulouse, a southwestern region of France, and received his PhD from the University of Toulouse. He is also the author of L'Enfant qui voulait etre muet (The boy who wanted to be silent). "I am heartbroken to have lost a friend made of respect, erudition and kindness," Eric Le Boucher wrote for Slate France. "By killing him, his murderers wanted to kill respect, erudition, and kindness." 
 
 Michel Renaud did not work for Charlie Hebro, but was there to visit Cabu. Renaud was organizing a cultural event called Carnet de Voyage in central France. Cabu was the event's guest of honor, according to France 3. He was visiting the magazine with another organizer of the event, Gerard Gaillard, who managed to escape the shooting, by lying on the ground. 
 
 Franck Brinsolaro Franck Brinsolaro, 49, is one of the police officers killed in the attack. According to French media, he was a member of the special protection service and part of Charb's protection team. He was killed inside the building. "The whole of France must mobilize against the horror that struck our country," Brinsolaro's twin brother Philippe said to reporters. "You can't attack freedom of expression, attack the authority of the state in this way." Brinsolaro is from Marseilles and had recently married a journalist, according to The Guardian. Le Figaro reported that he leaves behind a young daughter. Share On email Share On email 
 
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 Ahmed Merabet was the second police officer that died in the attack. He was killed outside the building after encountering the gunmen. He was called to the scene while on patrol with a colleague. "He was on foot, and came nose to nose with the terrorists. He pulled out his weapon. It was his job, it was his duty," Rocco Contento a union representative at the central police station for Paris's 11th arrondissement said, according to The Guardian. Merabet was a policeman for the past eight years and had recently qualified to become a detective. Contento said he leaves behind a wife. "We are all extremely shocked," he said. 
 
 According to Le Monde, cartoonist Honoré was also among the victims of the attack. He was the author of this cartoon published on Charlie Hebdo's Twitter account Wednesday morning, before the attack. 
 
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 PARIS—Masked gunmen stormed the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, killing a dozen people and decimating a newsroom that long took pride in defying the outrage—and death threats—stirred by its caricatures lampooning Islam. 
 
 The brutal rampage shocked a nation that has been living in dread of reprisal attacks since joining the fight against Islamist insurgents in Africa and the Middle East. The attack—by gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles—triggered an outpouring of public anger at home and expressions... ||||| Image caption Charb in 2012: Uncompromising in his defiance of Islamists 
 
 Stephane Charbonnier, editor of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was among four cartoonists killed in the Paris massacre which left 12 people dead in total. 
 
 Charbonnier, known as "Charb", was 47. He had received death threats in the past and had been under police protection. 
 
 Reports say he was in an editorial meeting with the others when two masked gunmen burst in and opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The gunmen reportedly shouted "Allahu akbar!" (God is great). 
 
 The left-wing magazine's famous cartoonists went by nicknames - the others who died were called Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski. 
 
 Image caption Charb (centre) is seen here with fellow cartoonists Tignous (left) and Cabu in 2011 
 
 Charb had strongly defended Charlie Hebdo's cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad. 
 
 "Muhammad isn't sacred to me,'' he told the Associated Press in 2012, after the magazine's offices had been fire-bombed. 
 
 "I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don't live under Koranic law." 
 
 In 2007 Charlie Hebdo also defended itself in court over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, reprinted in the magazine, which had angered Muslims. 
 
 But Charlie Hebdo's anti-establishment satire was wide-ranging - it included poking fun at the far right, and aspects of Catholicism and Judaism. 
 
 Image caption 19 Sep 2012 issue: An Orthodox Jew pushes an old Muslim in a wheelchair, both shouting “You mustn’t make fun!” 
 
 'Idiot extremists' 
 
 The Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique says a cartoon by Charb this week was hauntingly prophetic. It was headlined "Still no attacks in France" and showed an Islamist militant with the speech bubbles: "Wait! We still have until the end of January to present our wishes" - a satirical play on new year wishes. 
 
 He was the weekly magazine's most recent editor, having taken the reins in 2012. 
 
 Charlie Hebdo was launched in 1969 but folded in 1981. However it was resurrected in 1992. Its circulation was not very big. 
 
 Its offices were destroyed in a petrol bomb attack in November 2011, a day after it named the Prophet Muhammad as "editor-in-chief" for its next issue. 
 
 In a BBC interview Charbonnier said that incident was an attack against freedom itself and an act by "idiot extremists" not representative of France's Muslim population. 
 
 He said the attack showed that Charlie Hebdo was right to defy Islamists and "make their lives difficult, as much as they do ours". 
 
 His regular illustrations for the magazine were titled "Charb doesn't like people".
– Four beloved French cartoonists are among the dead in today's attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Among them: Editor Stephane Charbonnier, or Charb. BuzzFeed reports the 47-year-old has had police protection since 2011 and was two years later added to al-Qaeda's most wanted list. In a 2012 interview with Der Spiegel, he had this to say: "If we worried about the consequences of each of our drawings in each of our 1,057 issues, then we would have had to close shop a long time ago. ... A drawing has never killed anyone." As for his own safety, he said, "I have neither a wife nor children, not even a dog. But I'm not going to hide." More: The other dead cartoonists are Jean Cabut, or Cabu, who has published cartoons in France for 60 years; Georges Wolinski, 80; and Bernard Verlhac, or Tignous, 57. The fifth journalist to be named is Bernard Maris, a 68-year-old economics professor who was the magazine’s deputy editor, reports the Guardian. The Wall Street Journal and the BBC report several of the dead were thought to have been in an editorial meeting when the attack occurred. Footage aired by French TV captures two masked attackers shouting, in French, "We have avenged Prophet Muhammad. We have killed Charlie Hebdo." The Guardian has graphic video of two gunmen shooting a police officer. Though the magazine's website was down for a period, it's now online and bears a single image with a phrase trending on social media: "Je Suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie"). John Kerry said as much today: "Each and every American stands with you today. Not just in horror or in anger or outrage ... but we stand with you in solidarity." The Week rounds up some reactions to the tragedy from cartoonists around the world who have responded in their best way: via cartoon. Another roundup: one from the Daily Beast on the magazine's 16 "most shocking" covers.