A decade after a deadly attack by gunmen on the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the country paused to honour the victims and reaffirm its determination to fight for freedom and democracy.
French President Emmanuel Macron attended the flower-laying ceremony, along with former French President François Hollande, during whose administration the attack took place, and a number of officials and politicians, including Prime Minister François Bayrou, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and National Assembly Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet.
Following the laying of flowers on Rue Nicolas-Appert, similar ceremonies were also held outside the Hyper Casher supermarket and on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where the terrorists killed policeman Ahmed Merabet.
Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the Charlie Hebdo editorial office on January 7 2015 and killed 12 people in the attack. They were subsequently eliminated by anti-terrorism units of the Gendarmerie.
Their accomplice Amedy Coulibaly then first shot and killed a police officer on the southern outskirts of Paris and then carried out a takeover of a Hyper Casher shop, during which he shot and killed four other people. During the assault, he was killed by special police unit fire.
