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Paris terror attack: Timeline

French father explains terror attacks to young son in heartbreaking video

November 17, 2015

    Heavily armed men shouting “Allahu Akbar” have stormed the Paris headquarters of a satirical weekly, killing 12 people in the worst attack in France in decades.

     

    At around 11:20am, two masked Kalashnikov-wielding men dressed in black commando-style gear burst into number 6 rue Nicolas-Appert in a Paris neighbourhood, where the archives of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly are based.“Is this Charlie Hebdo?” they shouted, before realising they had got the wrong address.Moving quickly down the road to number 10, they fired at reception staff and went to the second floor where journalists and cartoonists were holding an editorial conference.

“The two men opened fire and coldly killed the people in the conference room, as well as the police officer in charge of protecting (cartoonist) Charb, who did not have time to react,” said a police source.Only one person survived, by hiding under the table. The witness heard the pair cry “we have avenged the prophet” and “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest).At 11:30am, police received reports of gunshots at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters and immediately dispatched officers to the scene.The gunmen fled, again crying “Allahu akbar”, and came face-to-face with police, with a firefight ensuing.They climbed into a black Citroen C3 car and exchanged fire with another police vehicle, shooting it around a dozen times without injuring the officers inside.

    According to chilling amateur video footage, the killers went about their deadly work with bloodcurdling calm — striding with guns held before them and scanning the streets for targets, before unflinchingly executing an injured police officer sprawled on the pavement as he held his hand aloft in an apparent attempt to shield himself.“You were going to kill me!” the gunman said before pulling the trigger. The two killers then cast another look around and slowly went towards their waiting getaway car, where the figure on the passenger side paused to scoop up what appeared to be a gun that had fallen to the ground before jumping in.Bystanders near the newspaper office with the presence of mind and courage to record videos or take photos of the violence captured a pedestrian crouching between parked cars after apparently spotting the killers advancing up the street.

The assassins drove off with the same calm as they had methodically carried out their strike.

Shortly after, the gunmen had a violent crash with a Volkswagen, injuring the driver.They tried to continue but were forced to abandon their damaged vehicle at Porte de Pantin, hijacking another car and fleeing towards the north of the capital.Police say they have mobilised a huge number of officers to follow the trail of the gunmen but that details of the investigation are currently confidential.

 

     

    Get a box of tissues handy: This adorable video of a father explaining the Paris terror attacks to his son will make your heart break and melt into a sludgy mess all at once.
The pair was interviewed by a reporter for French television show Le Petit Journal outside a tribute to the terror attacks that killed 129 people at various venues around the city on Friday, Nov. 13.
The reporter bends down to ask the child if he understands what is happening before the boy starts to explain that “bad guys are not very nice” and how people need to be careful and they might need to move out.His father steps in to remind him they won’t be moving anywhere because “France is our home” before they have a touching conversation on camera about terrorism in what could pass as a master class in compassionate parenting.
“They might have guns but we have flowers,” the father says at one point.
“But flowers don’t do anything,” says the boy.
“Of course they do,” the father replies. “Look, everyone is putting flowers. It’s to fight against the guns.”
“It’s to protect?”
“Exactly.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/paris-terror-attack-timeline/news-story/c213912cecff6bbc1597343b652dcd42
http://nypost.com/2015/11/17/french-father-explains-terror-attacks-to-young-son-in-heartbreaking-video/

STRUCTUER OF THE LEAD:
WHAT-terror attack
WHEN-Nov. 2015
WHO-not given
WHY-not given
HOW-kill people with gun
WHERE-Paris

KEY WORDS:

1. satirical  諷刺的
2. wield  使用
3. commando  突擊隊
4. rue  悲嘆
5. reception  接待
6. avenge  報仇
7. prophet  預言者；先知
8. dispatch  處決
9. ensue  接踵而來；繼起
10. footage  連續鏡頭
11. chilling  令人恐懼的
12. unfliching  不屈不撓的