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Following Terror Attack, Charlie Hebdo to Publish One Million Copies

After eight of its staffers were massacred Wednesday by terrorists, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo will publish one million copies of its next edition, Bloomberg News reported today.

In what would be an act to show that “we can’t let them win,” the weekly will publish with the help of other French media organizations nearly 17 times its normal print run, its lawyer Richard Malka said on France Info radio today. The magazine, which has a circulation of 60,000, will have eight pages instead of the usual 16.

“Confronted with horror, Radio France, Le Monde and France Televisions will provide Charlie Hebdo and its staff the human and material means it needs to continue,” they said today in a joint statement. They called on other media to help.

Charlie Hebdo‘s five best-known cartoonists were killed in the attack. Bloomberg quoted a surviving staffer at the magazine, Patrick Pelloux, “It’s going to be hard to continue. We must not give up.” Another satirical publication, Le Canard Enchaine, issued a statement of support for the survivors to continue working, “whether the barbarians like it or not.”

At the time of this writing, two suspects in the terror attack, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, have reportedly been killed in confrontation with police.

In the aftermath of the attack, tens of thousands rallied in support of the magazine across France.

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