Amateur video shows a man police confirm as supermarket shooter Amedy Coulibaly, saying the France gun attacks were coordinated and justified. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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In a bold act of defiance, the remaining staff of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo plan to publish a million copies of an 8-page edition on Wednesday and will include caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, according to their lawyer.
"We will not give in. The spirit of 'I am Charlie' means the right to blaspheme," lawyer Richard Malka told France Info radio. He said the front page of the publication, which comes on Wednesday, would be released Monday evening, Reuters reports.
The one-million press run is a huge jump from the normal circulation of 60,000 copies and reflects the strong outpouring of support from the public, including a show of solidarity by 1.5 million people in central Paris on Sunday.
Asked directly if the newspaper will include caricatures of the founder of Islam, Malka replied, "Naturally," the Telegraph reports.
"Humor without self-deprecation isn't humor," he said. "We mock ourselves, politicians, religions, it's a state of mind you need to have."
The interview was broadcast from the magazine's heavily guarded temporary offices atLibération newspaper, the Telegraph reports.
The two gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week, killing 12 people, had shouted that their mission was to avenge the newspaper's publication of what they said were denigrating cartoons about Islam.
The bloody attack triggered three days of terror in France, climaxing Friday in the fatal shooting of the Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother, Said, 34, by security forces in a town north of Paris, and the killing of an associate, Amedy Coulibaly, 32. who had taken over a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, killing four people.
Some 10,000 security forces are being mobilized to help in the effort and to protect the population against other possible terrorist attacks.
"The threat is still present," said Prime Minister Manuel Valls. He told BFM television on Monday that France is at war against "terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam."
The unity rally on Sunday featured a procession led by French President Francois Hollande, who was joined by other world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas.
The security forces will be deployed beginning Tuesday at the country's most vulnerable locations, including Jewish schools, said Jean-Yves Le Drian, France's defense minister.
On Friday morning, only hours before his death, Coulibaly told BFM television that he had coordinated his attacks with the Kouachi brothers. He claimed to be a member of Islamic State, the extremist organization that has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq. Cherif Kouachi, in a separate interview, said the attacks were planned and financed by Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Authorities initially believed that Coulibaly's common-law wife, Hayat Boumediene, 26, was involved in the policewoman's death and the supermarket takeover.
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Monday, however, that Boumediene arrived in Turkey from Madrid on Jan. 2, ahead of the attacks, and stayed at a hotel in Istanbul before crossing into Syria on Thursday.
In another development, a Yemeni reporter told the Associated Press on Monday that in 2010 he met Said Kouachi who claimed to have lived with the Nigerian who tried to carry out the failed al-Qaeda "underwear bomb" plot five years ago.
Yemeni journalist and researcher Mohammed al-Kibsi said he first met Kouachi in the capital, Sanaa, while the gunman was studying Arabic.
Al-Kibsi told the AP on Monday: "He was very polite and had a sense of humor so for me I could not expect that a few years later he would be the suspect of a terror attack."
The journalist said that Kouachi said that he had lived with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, convicted of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.
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New 'Charlie Hebdo' edition to include cartoons on Islam