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."
Charlie Hebdo shootings Europe's latest deadly terror attack
Massacre that left 12 dead after satirical paper published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad claims more lives than any European terrorist attack in the past 50 years • Tens of thousands worldwide protest in solidarity, signs read "I am Charlie."
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