1011 of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo left the presses two days before its official publication date.
[5] During the night of 1 November 2011 the Charlie Hebdo offices at 62 boulevard Davout in the 20th arrondissement of Paris were burned down with a Molotov cocktail.
The welcome page was replaced by a message in English and Turkish saying, "You keep abusing Islam's almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech. ...
[13][14] On 3 November, the company Bluevision, which hosted the site, refused to put it back online following death threats it received.
Facebook's official explanation was that Charlie Hebdo was not an actual person, and that the page contravened rules proscribing graphic content.
[17]On 7 January 2015, two Islamist terrorists stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices and shot and killed twelve people.
"[18] Among the victims were cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous, Georges Wolinski, and the economist Bernard Maris.