A gun assault on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday was the deadliest terrorist attack in France for half a century. Some other terror attacks in Western Europe: • March 11, 2004: Bombs on rush-hour trains kill 191 at Madrid's Atocha station in Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. • July 25, 1995: A bomb at the Saint-Michel subway station in Paris kills eight people and injures some 150. It was one of a series of bombings claimed by Algeria's GIA, or Armed Islamic Group. • July 22, 2011: Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a bomb in Oslo then attacks a youth camp on Norway's Utoya Island, killing 77 people, many of them teenagers. • July 7, 2005: 52 commuters are killed when four al Qaida-inspired suicide bombers blow themselves up on three London subway trains and a bus. • Aug 15, 1998: A car bomb planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents kills 29 people in the town of Omagh, in the deadliest incident of Northern Ireland's four-decade conflict. • March 2012: A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida kills three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern France. • May 24, 2014: Four people are killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels by an intruder with a Kalashnikov. The accused is a former French fighter linked to the Islamic State group in Syria. • May 22, 2013: Two al-Qaida inspired extremists run down British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death. • Nov 2, 2011: Offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris are firebombed after the satirical magazine runs a cover featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. No one is wounded. On Thursday, tens of thousands of people, from Berlin to Bangkok, took a stand against living in fear, as rallies defended the freedom of expression and honored the victims of the Paris attack. Viewing the Charlie Hebdo killings as a cold-blooded assault on democracy, people from all walks of life -- journalists and police officers, politicians and students -- turned out in cities around the world, holding up pens and joining hands in an outpouring of silent solidarity. Many held placards proclaiming "Je suis Charlie" -- "I am Charlie" -- a slogan that went viral on social media within hours of Wednesday's terrorist attack. Germany's biggest-selling daily, Bild, filled the top half of its front page with the headline "Cowardly Murderers!" and printed a black back page with the words "Je suis Charlie." "The only thing we can do against this is to live fearlessly," editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann said in an editorial. "Our colleagues in Paris have paid the ultimate price for freedom. We bow before them."
