The first edition of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published after the massacre was sold out within 30 minutes after hitting the stands on Wednesday. The front page of Charlie Hebdo's Jan. 14 edition shows a cartoon of a tearful Mohammad with a sign "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) below the headline: "Tout est pardonné" (All is forgiven).
The first edition of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published after the massacre was sold out within 30 minutes after hitting the stands on Wednesday. The front page of Charlie Hebdo's Jan. 14 edition shows a cartoon of a tearful Mohammad with a sign "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) below the headline: "Tout est pardonné" (All is forgiven).
People lined up outside a newspaper kiosk to buy the fresh edition of Charlie Hebdo newspaper. AFP
Hundreds of people lined up outside various newspaper kiosks around France on Wednesday to show their support for the newspaper which was targetted by gunmen over cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. A print run of up to three million copies has been set for what has been called "the survivors' edition", dwarfing the usual 60,000 run. But still, many outlets were selling out fast.
Copies were reserved a day earlier
"It's important for me to buy it and show solidarity by doing so, and not only by marching," said 42-year old Laurent in the same queue, adding he had no guarantee he would get a copy because he had not reserved one the day before.
A person buys the edition of Charlie Hebdo. AFP
"I've never bought it before, it's not quite my political stripes, but it's important for me to buy it today and support freedom of expression," said David Sullo, standing at the end of a queue of two dozen people at a kiosk in central Paris.
A woman shows the Charlie Hebdo edition after she buys it from the kiosk. Reuters
A few blocks away, by Jules Joffrin metro station in northern Paris, one newspaper seller said people were already waiting outside her shop when she opened at 6:00 am (0500 GMT). "I had 10 copies - they were sold immediately," she said. The newsagent at Gare du Nord rail station said it opened at 5:15 am local instead of the usual 6:00, and its 200 copies sold out in less than 15 minutes.
I wrote 'all is forgiven' and I cried
At least 3.7 million marched through Paris on Sunday to honour the memory of the journalists, police officers and supermarket customers who had died.
"I wrote 'all is forgiven' and I cried," Renald "Luz" Luzier, who created the image, told a news conference on Tuesday at the weekly's temporary office at left-wing daily Liberation. "This is our front page ... it's not the one the terrorists wanted us to draw," he said. "I'm not worried at all ... I trust people's intelligence, the intelligence of humour."
A sign which translates as "Charlie hebdo- Sold out- Next deliveries on Thursday" is displayed at a newsagentis in Stratsbourg. AFP
We shouldn't touch Charlie
Inside the edition, the weekly's usual irreverent humour was on display. One cartoon shows jihadists saying: "We shouldn't touch Charlie, people ... otherwise they will look like martyrs and, once in heaven, these bastards will steal our virgins."
"What makes us laugh most is that the bells of Notre-Dame rang in our honour," the newspaper, which emerged from the 1968 freedom movement and has long mocked all religions and pillars of the establishment, wrote in an editorial.
All proceeds from the sale of this week's edition will go directly to Charlie Hebdo, in a windfall for a publication that had been struggling financially, after distributors decided to waive their cut. The cover price was three euros.
A call for donations has also been aired on national media.
A handwritten sign, which reads "No more Charlie", is displayed after it sold out the limited stock of the satirical newspaper in Paris. Reuters
Queues formed in the early morning
In Charenton on the eastern edge of Paris, queues formed in the early morning darkness at the normally quiet newspaper stand near the metro, until people got closer to a notice by the door saying "Charlie Hebdo: none left". The newspaper seller said he hoped to get more copies on Thursday but was refusing to take reservations.
Multilingual digital versions
Digital versions will be posted in English, Spanish and Arabic, while print editions in Italian and Turkish will also appear. At a news briefing on Tuesday, US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said: "We absolutely support the right of Charlie Hebdo to publish things like this. Again, that's what happens in a democracy. Period."
Copies of the latest edition of French Satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are displayed in Paris on January 14, 2015. AFP
Grand Mufti warns
However Egypt's Grand Mufti warned the newspaper against publishing a new Mohammad caricature, saying it was a racist act that would incite hatred and upset Muslims around the world.
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