A young mother and cartoonist who survived the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris today said she had let the suspected Al Qaeda killers into the magazine office. 
 
 Corrine Rey said she had returned from picking up her young daughter from a kindergarten when she was confronted by two heavily armed men wearing balaclavas. 
 
 'I had gone to pick up my daughter at day care, arriving in front of the magazine building, where two masked and armed men brutally threatened us,' said Ms Rey, who draws under the name 'Coco'. 
 
 Scroll down for video 
 
 Desperate: Corrine Rey, who's a cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo, hid underneath a desk with her daughter to escape the terrorists who killed her colleagues 
 
 Siege: The two men, who claimed to be from Al Qaeda, threatened Miss Rey into giving them the code to enter the building 
 
 Killers: One of the masked men mercilessly shot and killed a wounded police officer on the street outside 
 
 Death: 12 people, including four Charlie Hebdo journalists, were killed in the attack before the assailants fled 
 
 'They said they wanted to go up to the offices, so I tapped in the code,' said Ms Rey, referring to the digi-code security system on the inter-phone. 
 
 Miss Rey and her daughter hid under a desk, from where they saw two other cartoonists being executed. 
 
 'They shot Wolinski and Cabu,' she said, 'It lasted five minutes. I had taken refuge under a desk. 
 
 She said the men 'spoke French perfectly' and 'claimed they were 'Al Qaeda terrorists'. 
 
 According to Charlie Hebdo's lawyer, four cartoonists were killed by the masked gunmen: Cabu, Wolinski, Tignous and Charb, the pen name of Stephane Charbonnier, also the chief editor at Charlie Hebdo. 
 
 Corrine's story is one of several horrifying tales from people who saw and survived the attack in Paris today. 
 
 Another eye-witness, who works in an office in the same building, told the BBC World Service: 'When I arrived at the scene it was quite disturbing as you can imagine. There were several corpses on the floor. 
 
 He arrived at the scene of the massacre just minutes after the attackers had left, and described how he tried to make some room for the wounded in the office. 
 
 Showdown: There was a fire-fight between French police and the two attackers, who claim to be from Al Qaeda, outside the building 
 
 Terrifying: Eyewitnesses say they saw the men firing indiscriminately on the street outside. This tweet allegedly shows a bullet hole from inside the Charlie Hebdo office building 
 
 Getaway: After shooting a policeman, the pair escaped in a black Citroen (pictured), which they crashed 
 
 On the run: The men, described as 'calm and highly disciplined', remain on the loose in Paris 
 
 He added: 'As we progressed through the rooms, we saw there were a lot of people down on the floor and there was blood everywhere. 
 
 'We're extremely relieved that nobody was affected by the attacks in my own office... but obviously I'm very traumatised by this attack and everything and now we're in psychological hell where we're being attended to by professionals.' 
 
 Giles Boulanger, who also works in the same building, described to French news station Itele how a colleague warned him that armed men had entered the building. 
 
 He said: 'several minutes later, we heard several shots in the building from automatic weapons from all directions. 
 
 'It was really upsetting. You'd think it was a war zone.' 
 
 The headquarters of Charlie Hebdo was attacked with a 'firebomb' in November 2011, after they put an image of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover. 
 
 Out-gunned: One eyewitness told Sky News the security presence around the building was 'useless' 
 
 Shooting: Lead cartoonist Jean 'Cabu' Cabut (pictured) was among the 12 massacred by terrorists in Paris 
 
 Security presence around the building was ineffective against the 'well trained' attackers, Stefan De Vries told Sky News. 
 
 The French journalist, who arrived at the scene moments after the attackers had fled, said: 'There was protection at the door but they killed the police officers, they executed them and they started shooting in the offices. There were more than 50 people inside. 
 
 ‘It was difficult to enter but these people, the suspects were heavily armed, and shot the police so yeah, there was security but it was useless.’ 
 
 Witnesses said the suspected Al Qaeda killers were heard to shout 'the Prophet has been avenged' and 'Allahu akbar!' – 'God is greatest' – as they stalked the building. 
 
 Horrific footage also emerged showing an injured police officer slumped on the pavement outside the office as two of the gunmen approach. ||||| Following the attack at the newspaper's office in Paris, France mourns the the victims including staff members and visitors. 
 
 Editorial director of Charlie Hebdo and famous cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, known simply as Charb, was one of victims of the attack at the newspaper's Paris office. He had been leading the weekly newspaper since 2012. In 2011, after the newspaper was firebombed following the publication of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammed, Charb told the Associated Press the attacks might have been carried out by "stupid people who don't know what Islam is." He was included in al-Qaeda's most wanted list in 2013. According to French daily Le Monde, Charb had been under police protection since 2011. After Charb received death threats in 2012, he was quoted as saying "I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees." 
 
 This Charb cartoon appeared in the latest issue of the newspaper. Translated, it says, "Still no attack in France," says the title. "Wait!" says the man on the drawing. "We have until the end of January to give our best wishes." Charb dans le Charlie Hebdo de la semaine. Alexandre Hervaud@AlexHervaudFollow Charb dans le Charlie Hebdo de la semaine. 6:56 AM - 07 Jan 15ReplyRetweetFavorite 
 
 Jean Cabut, known as Cabu, was a beloved cartoonist in France whose first cartoons were published in 1954. He contributed to Hara Kiri, a controversial satirical French magazine published in the 1960s. Hara Kiri was banned in 1970 following the death of Charles de Gaulle, and Charlie Hebdo was created soon after. In 2006, Cabu drew a front-cover cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad with the headline "Muhammad overwhelmed by fundamentalists." The newspaper was then sued by a number of Islamic organizations in France. 
 
 Georges Wolinski, 80, was known for his cartoons spoofing politics and sexuality. Like Cabu, George Wolinski started drawing political cartoons for Hara Kiri in the 1960s. Wolinski was born in Tunis, Tunisia, according to the Jewish Daily Forward. His father died when Wolinski was very young, and he said, "The ghost of my father has haunted me all my life," according to an excerpt from his wife's memoir Georges, si tu savais (George, if you only knew). According to Le Monde, Wolinski used to joke: "I want to be incinerated. I told my wife: you'll throw my ashes in the toilet, this way I'll be able to see your butt everyday. " 
 
 The cartoon pokes fun at President Francois Hollande. It makes fake wishes for the new year while making fun of the president's love life and the economic crisis is. The last line says, "Am I on the right track? I'll only know it in the end..." 
 
 Bernard Verlhac, known as Tignous, 57, has been drawing for the press since 1980. He appears to have been a part of network of cartoonists called Cartooning for Peace. A number of his drawings are posted the site. His early cartoons appeared in L'idiot international, La grosse Bertha, and L'événement du jeudi, according to his bio on Cartooning for Peace. 
 
 Bernard Maris, known as "Uncle Bernard" to readers of Charlie Hebo, was killed in the attack. Maris, 68, was a famous left-wing economist who wrote about finance and economics. He was an editor at Charlie Hebdo and a member of the Bank of France's General Council. "This is a barbaric attack on the freedom of the press," Bank of France governor Christian Noyer said in as statement according to NBC News. "Bernard Maris was a cultured, kind and very tolerant man. He will be much missed." He is from Toulouse, a southwestern region of France, and received his PhD from the University of Toulouse. He is also the author of L'Enfant qui voulait etre muet (The boy who wanted to be silent). "I am heartbroken to have lost a friend made of respect, erudition and kindness," Eric Le Boucher wrote for Slate France. "By killing him, his murderers wanted to kill respect, erudition, and kindness." 
 
 Michel Renaud did not work for Charlie Hebro, but was there to visit Cabu. Renaud was organizing a cultural event called Carnet de Voyage in central France. Cabu was the event's guest of honor, according to France 3. He was visiting the magazine with another organizer of the event, Gerard Gaillard, who managed to escape the shooting, by lying on the ground. 
 
 Franck Brinsolaro Franck Brinsolaro, 49, is one of the police officers killed in the attack. According to French media, he was a member of the special protection service and part of Charb's protection team. He was killed inside the building. "The whole of France must mobilize against the horror that struck our country," Brinsolaro's twin brother Philippe said to reporters. "You can't attack freedom of expression, attack the authority of the state in this way." Brinsolaro is from Marseilles and had recently married a journalist, according to The Guardian. Le Figaro reported that he leaves behind a young daughter. Share On email Share On email 
 
 Share On link Share On link Share This Link 
 
 Share On facebook Share On facebook Share 
 
 Ahmed Merabet was the second police officer that died in the attack. He was killed outside the building after encountering the gunmen. He was called to the scene while on patrol with a colleague. "He was on foot, and came nose to nose with the terrorists. He pulled out his weapon. It was his job, it was his duty," Rocco Contento a union representative at the central police station for Paris's 11th arrondissement said, according to The Guardian. Merabet was a policeman for the past eight years and had recently qualified to become a detective. Contento said he leaves behind a wife. "We are all extremely shocked," he said. 
 
 According to Le Monde, cartoonist Honoré was also among the victims of the attack. He was the author of this cartoon published on Charlie Hebdo's Twitter account Wednesday morning, before the attack. 
 
 This story is developing. Check back for updates. ||||| Image caption Charb in 2012: Uncompromising in his defiance of Islamists 
 
 Stephane Charbonnier, editor of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was among four cartoonists killed in the Paris massacre which left 12 people dead in total. 
 
 Charbonnier, known as "Charb", was 47. He had received death threats in the past and had been under police protection. 
 
 Reports say he was in an editorial meeting with the others when two masked gunmen burst in and opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The gunmen reportedly shouted "Allahu akbar!" (God is great). 
 
 The left-wing magazine's famous cartoonists went by nicknames - the others who died were called Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski. 
 
 Image caption Charb (centre) is seen here with fellow cartoonists Tignous (left) and Cabu in 2011 
 
 Charb had strongly defended Charlie Hebdo's cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad. 
 
 "Muhammad isn't sacred to me,'' he told the Associated Press in 2012, after the magazine's offices had been fire-bombed. 
 
 "I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don't live under Koranic law." 
 
 In 2007 Charlie Hebdo also defended itself in court over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, reprinted in the magazine, which had angered Muslims. 
 
 But Charlie Hebdo's anti-establishment satire was wide-ranging - it included poking fun at the far right, and aspects of Catholicism and Judaism. 
 
 Image caption 19 Sep 2012 issue: An Orthodox Jew pushes an old Muslim in a wheelchair, both shouting “You mustn’t make fun!” 
 
 'Idiot extremists' 
 
 The Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique says a cartoon by Charb this week was hauntingly prophetic. It was headlined "Still no attacks in France" and showed an Islamist militant with the speech bubbles: "Wait! We still have until the end of January to present our wishes" - a satirical play on new year wishes. 
 
 He was the weekly magazine's most recent editor, having taken the reins in 2012. 
 
 Charlie Hebdo was launched in 1969 but folded in 1981. However it was resurrected in 1992. Its circulation was not very big. 
 
 Its offices were destroyed in a petrol bomb attack in November 2011, a day after it named the Prophet Muhammad as "editor-in-chief" for its next issue. 
 
 In a BBC interview Charbonnier said that incident was an attack against freedom itself and an act by "idiot extremists" not representative of France's Muslim population. 
 
 He said the attack showed that Charlie Hebdo was right to defy Islamists and "make their lives difficult, as much as they do ours". 
 
 His regular illustrations for the magazine were titled "Charb doesn't like people". ||||| PARIS Charlie Hebdo's first edition since an attack by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes on Wednesday, featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on a cover that defenders praised as art but critics saw as a new provocation. 
 
 French readers queued at dawn for copies to support the satirical newspaper, even as al Qaeda's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack last week, saying it ordered the killings because it deemed the weekly had insulted the Prophet. 
 
 Across the Middle East, Muslim leaders who have denounced the attack in which 12 people died called for calm, while criticizing Charlie Hebdo's decision to publish a fresh caricature of Mohammad. 
 
 President Francois Hollande visited France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean and said it was ready to support military operations against Islamic State in Iraq "in close cooperation with coalition forces". 
 
 The U.S. State Department said Secretary of State John Kerry would meet with Hollande in Paris on Friday to offer assistance to France. 
 
 Also on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said over 50 cases of people voicing support for terrorism had been registered since the attack on Charlie Hebdo's Paris office and the subsequent killings of a policewoman and four people at a Jewish supermarket. 
 
 Millions of copies of the "survivors' edition" were printed, dwarfing the usual 60,000 print run. On its cover, a tearful Mohammad holds a "Je suis Charlie" sign under the words "All is forgiven." 
 
 David Sullo, standing at the end of a queue of two dozen people at a central Paris kiosk, said he had 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," he said. 
 
 Inside, one cartoon showed jihadists saying, "We shouldn't touch Charlie people ... otherwise they will look like martyrs and, once in heaven, these bastards will steal our virgins." 
 
 This week's edition underlined the irony of how the victims had been commemorated at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. 
 
 "What makes us laugh most is that the bells of Notre-Dame rang in our honor," read an editorial in the newspaper, which emerged from the 1968 counter-culture movement and has long mocked all religions and pillars of the establishment. 
 
 Prime Minister Manuel Valls, himself a frequent target of the weekly's caricatures, left a cabinet meeting with a copy tucked under his arm. 
 
 "BATTLE OF PARIS" 
 
 In a video posted on YouTube, Al Qaeda's Yemen branch said its leadership had ordered last Wednesday's attack on Charlie Hebdo. 
 
 "As for the blessed Battle of Paris, we, the Organization of al Qaeda al Jihad in the Arabian Peninsula, claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the Messenger of God," said Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, the group's main ideologue in Yemen. 
 
 Ansi said the strike was the "implementation" of an order by al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the recording. 
 
 The two brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdo and a third gunman who killed the policewoman and hostages at the kosher supermarket all died in police raids. 
 
 Defenders praised the cover for upholding the newspaper's satirical mission, proclaiming its right to free speech while maintaining a mournful tone and a peaceful message. 
 
 Jonathan Jones, art critic for Britain's Guardian newspaper, called the cover "a life-affirming work of art". 
 
 "Funny people were killed for being funny. This new cover is the only possible response - a response that makes you laugh," he wrote. 
 
 Belgium's Le Soir wrote, "Not publishing the edition would have been like a second death for the victims." 
 
 Several German newspapers reprinted the cover. It filled the back page of the top-selling Bild daily, whose columnist Franz Josef Wagner praised it highly. "It is sarcasm, it is biting ridicule ... they are mocking the murderers," he wrote. 
 
 In the Middle East, it was branded a new provocation that could create a backlash. Publishing the cartoons "shows contempt" for Muslim feelings, said the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestinian lands, Mohammed Hussein. 
 
 Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif said serious dialogue with the West would be easier if it respected Muslim sensitivities. "We believe that sanctities need to be respected," he said before nuclear talks in Geneva with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. "We won't be able to engage in a serious dialogue if we start disrespecting each other's values." 
 
 A court in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir ruled in favor of blocking four websites that ran the cover. 
 
 "Those crass people proud of attacking religions are inflaming Islamophobia. This mentality, whatever vehicle it uses, is a threat to world peace," Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan wrote on Twitter. 
 
 Algeria's independent Arab language daily Echorouk ran its own front page cartoon showing a man carrying a "Je suis Charlie" placard next to an army tank crushing placards from Palestine, Mali, Gaza, Iraq and Syria. Above, the headline reads: "We are all Mohammad". 
 
 Samir Mahmoud, a retired engineer in Cairo, said the cartoons "have no meaning, they should not affect us. We as Muslims are bigger and stronger than some cartoon". 
 
 Days after Senegal's President Macky Sall took part in the Paris march, his interior ministry issued a statement on Wednesday banning the "distribution and circulation by all means" of the latest edition of "Charlie Hebdo" and the French daily "Liberation". 
 
 All proceeds from the sale of this week's edition will go directly to Charlie Hebdo, a windfall for a publication that had been struggling financially. 
 
 While many French people enthusiastically supported the weekly's decision to put another cartoon of Mohammad on its cover, some expressed concern that it would provoke more tension. 
 
 Bordeaux mosque rector Tareq Oubrou urged French Muslims not to overreact to the new cartoons. "I don't think the prophet of Islam needs stupid or excited reactions," he told BFM-TV. "Freedom has its downsides and we must live with them." 
 
 French prosecutors decided to try Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, a French comedian convicted in the past for anti-Semitic comments, on charges of glorifying terrorism for writing on Facebook, "Je suis Charlie Coulibaly", adding the surname of one of the gunmen. 
 
 France will announce next week a set of anti-terrorism measures, officials said. New resources will be released for surveillance and France could look at widening the policy of isolating radical prisoners. 
 
 Hollande, the most unpopular French president in survey history over his failure to kickstart the economy, has come out of the crisis well, with 85 percent of French approving of his handling of it, a poll showed on Wednesday. 
 
 (Additional reporting by Emmanuel Jarry, Valerie Parent and Brian Love in Paris, Sami Aboudi in Dubai, Madeleine Chambers in Berlin, Seyhmus Cakan in Diyarbakir and Reuters correspondents in Europe and the Middle East and Africa; Writing by Ingrid Melander and Tom Heneghan; Editing by David Stamp, Toni Reinhold) ||||| Details are emerging about the first issue of Paris-based satirical newsweekly Charlie Hebdo since gunmen stormed its office last week, killing 12 people in an attack that ignited worldwide shows of solidarity and fanned European fears about homegrown terrorism. 
 
 With its previous office now a crime scene, the remaining staff essentially relocated to Libération, a left-wing daily, which lent workspace to surviving staffers where they could plan it all out under increased security. 
 
 Libération began to circulate the cover image Monday evening. Drawn by veteran Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Rénald Luzier, known as Luz, the cover depicts the Prophet Muhammad, with a falling tear drop, holding a sign that reads Je Suis Charlie. That phrase, “I am Charlie,” is a nod to the hashtag that became a rallying cry of solidarity for the paper in the aftermath of the attack. Above the caricature is the phrase Tout est Pardonné, or “All is forgiven.” 
 
 Front Pages React to Paris Terror Attack 1 of 18 Advertisement 
 
 The issue, to be published Wednesday, is expected to be translated into 16 languages. The New York Times, which got an inside look at the production, reports that it will feature tributes to, and old cartoons by, those who died in last week’s attack. Charlie Hebdo typically publishes 60,000 copies but, with the help of Libération, it will print 3 million copies of this issue. 
 
 “There will be a newspaper. There will be no interruption,” said editor-in-chief Gerard Briard at a press conference on Tuesday. “Freedom of the press in a democracy is an institution.” 
 
 “This isn’t an issue produced by crybabies,” Gérard Biard, the newspaper’s new editor, told France Info. 
 
 In 2011, the Charlie Hebdo office was firebombed after it announced the Prophet Muhammad would become its next editor-in-chief. In 2012, Charlie Hebdo printed a cartoon that depicted the religious figure naked, just days after the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, at the time said to result from anger over an amateur video that poorly depicted the Prophet. Last month, it released a drawing of the Virgin Mary that depicted her giving birth to Jesus. And on the day of the recent attack, minutes before the first reports of the killings began to circulate, Charlie Hebdo tweeted a cartoon of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, that jokingly wished him good health. 
 
 Large Crowds Rally Against Terrorism in Paris After Attacks Peter Dejong—AP Philippe Wojazer—Reuters Christopher Furlong—Getty Images Eric Gaillard—Reuters Julien WarnandJ—EPA Dan Kitwood—Getty Images Stephane Mahe—Reuters Yoan Valat—EPA Joel Saget—AFP/Getty Images Eric Gaillard—Reuters 1 of 10 Advertisement 
 
 “A good issue of Charlie Hebdo is one that you open, one that frightens you when you see the cartoon, and then makes you laugh out loud,” the paper’s attorney, Richard Malka, added. “We won’t give in, otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense.” 
 
 The final decision Monday about the upcoming cover was an emotional one, Libération details: “Around 9:30 p.m., a small piece of paper makes the rounds, causing cries, laughs and cheers. The editor-in-chief Gérard Biard hugs Luz, who collapses. After hours marked by failed attempts, bouts of depression and writer’s block, the cover is approved. The Prophet is Charlie.” 
 
 Briard, the editor in chief, thanked new subscribers to Charlie Hebdo, specifically mentioning Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We thank all those who have subscribed, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, who on his own represents 10 subscribers,” he joked. 
 
 Wednesday’s issue will be released the same week that funerals for the victims are set to begin. French police continue to investigate the background of the two men identified as the Charlie Hebdo killers, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who were killed on Friday. And authorities are working to protect other other sensitive locations, specifically Jewish neighborhoods and schools, following Friday’s deadly attack on a kosher supermarket by Amedy Coulibaly, a man identified as a friend of the brothers. 
 
 Despite the complexities that went into putting together the issue, Malka, the lawyer, told The Telegraph, “It’s an act of life, of survival.” 
 
 —With reporting by Olivier Laurent and Sam Frizell 
 
 Read next: French Intelligence Warns That There Might Be Worse Attacks to Come 
 
 The Brief Newsletter Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. View Sample Sign Up Now 
 
 Listen to the most important stories of the day. ||||| As the journalists wrestled with grief, there were flashes of mordant humor. Cartoonists sketched while describing how hard it was to go on after the horror in their offices; others lashed out in anger at the killers. The main question looming over the moment: How could they possibly be funny at a time like this? 
 
 Photo 
 
 “We don’t know how to do anything but laugh,” said Mr. Biard, who was on vacation the day of the shootings. 
 
 Worldwide, the massacre has set off debates about security lapses, Islamic radicalism and turning points. Millions of supporters have embraced the slogan “I am Charlie.” But here, in a top-floor conference room with a stunning view of the Eiffel Tower, this was just a bunch of cartoonists and journalists: crying, snacking, laughing, breaking the rules against smoking indoors and trying to hold themselves together long enough to produce an issue. 
 
 Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
 
 Their first editorial meeting last Friday began not with article pitches but with remembrances for murdered colleagues, updates on the wounded and a surprise visit by Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Fleur Pellerin, the culture and communication minister — rare appearances at a newspaper more akin to The Onion than to Le Monde (and more likely to skewer those officials than interview them). 
 
 “We decided that we would do a normal edition, not a memorial issue,” Mr. Biard said on Friday, where an emotional three-hour staff meeting had just ended. Caterers brought in trays of smoked salmon, sandwiches and cream-filled desserts. A row of plainclothes police officers stood watch outside. Journalists hovered. Five desktop computers from Le Monde were set up on a round glass table. Since the attacks, donations have been pouring in, and a fund has been set up, jaidecharlie.fr (“I help Charlie”). 
 
 As the newsroom sprang to life on Friday afternoon, Mr. Biard reflected. “They killed people who drew cartoon characters. That’s it. That’s all these guys do. If they’re afraid of that,” what’s their god?, he asked, inserting an expletive for emphasis. 
 
 The logistics of putting out the paper were tricky. It had to file court requests to recover material from its office, now sealed off as a crime scene. With the help of Libération, Charlie Hebdo will print three million copies of the issue, compared with its usual 60,000 copies. The paper was also expected to be translated into several languages. 
 
 One idea was clear: keeping the staff members’ memories alive by publishing past work. The paper will run drawings by the five cartoonists killed: Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, the paper’s editor; Jean Cabut, known as Cabu; Bernard Verlhac, known as Tignous; Georges Wolinski; and Philippe Honoré. They also planned to honor other victims, running work by Bernard Maris, an economist, and Elsa Cayat, a psychiatrist, who both wrote columns, and perhaps publishing an unedited column for Mustapha Ourrad, a copy editor. 
 
 “In this edition, they didn’t kill anyone,” Mr. Biard said. The staff members will “appear as they always did.” Asked what else would go in the paper, Patrick Pelloux, an emergency room doctor who also writes for Charlie Hebdo, said with a laugh: “Oh, I don’t know. Not much happening this week.” 
 
 On Friday afternoon, Mr. Luzier, 43, was sketching a pumped-up Arnold Schwarzenegger tearing a copy of Charlie Hebdo in half. On the table, a few cigarette butts floated in a water bottle. 
 
 Last Wednesday was Mr. Luzier’s birthday; he and his wife had slept in, then he had stopped off to buy a cake and arrived at work just after the attack. “I was saved by love and gluttony,” Mr. Luzier said. He shook his head. “The people who came to kill us — they are fanatics and assassins — but above all, they are people who lack a sense of humor.” 
 
 More on the Paris Shootings 
 
 The mother of Simon Fieschi, the webmaster who fielded the paper’s extensive hate mail and who is now in a medically induced coma, arrived. Mr. Luzier got up and hugged her, silently, for a long time. Also injured were the cartoonist Laurent Sourriseau, known as Riss, who was shot in the shoulder; Fabrice Nicolino, a staff member, who has to have parts of his legs amputated; and Philippe Lançon, a journalist for Libération who wrote a TV column for the weekly. He was shot in the face but is expected to survive. 
 
 Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
 
 On Saturday, staff members began trickling in around midday. Cartoons began appearing on the conference room wall, which was filled with them by the evening. Someone could be heard crying inside. Corinne Rey, who goes by Coco, sat at the table, brush in hand, drawing. She said the gunmen had forced her to punch in the code to let them into the paper’s offices. 
 
 When the gunmen arrived, some thought it might be a joke, according to staff members. After years of threats, Mr. Charbonnier had made a joke of the jihadist cry “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” said Zineb El Rhazoui, 32, a Charlie Hebdo reporter who grew up in Morocco and wrote a cartoon biography of Muhammad with Mr. Charbonnier. 
 
 “It was like his war cry: ‘Allahu akbar this.’ ‘Allahu akbar that,’ ” she said. “We joked with him that he needed to stop using the phrase because the day the assassins actually come to kill us, we won’t know if it’s them screaming this phrase or Charb.” 
 
 Work ground to a halt on Sunday, when a demonstration denouncing the violence drew world leaders and more than 1.5 million people to the streets of Paris. Marching in the front row, many Charlie Hebdo staff members wore white headbands that read “Charlie,” a nod to the paradox of the outsider weekly’s sudden arrival on the front lines of a global confrontation. At the demonstration, Dr. Pelloux cried for a long time on the shoulder of President François Hollande when the president greeted the Charlie Hebdo staff and families of those killed at the related attack at a kosher supermarket. 
 
 Photo 
 
 Dr. Pelloux was at a meeting of emergency room doctors when he received a call with news of the Charlie Hebdo attack. He arrived with other rescue workers to find the carnage in a room rank with gun smoke, and began checking to see who was alive and who was dead. “I’ve seen cadavers,” he said. But this “was insane.” 
 
 Expressing the trauma of survivor guilt during an interview, he said, “I shouldn’t be alive,” his eyes welling up. 
 
 While the staff worked all weekend, the plainclothes police officers sat outside the newsroom door. One said he had once been assigned to Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front, who was not invited to the rally on Sunday. The officers lost one of their number in the attacks inside the office on Wednesday, too: Franck Brinsolaro, who had been assigned to guard Mr. Charbonnier. Staff members said Mr. Brinsolaro had become a part of the tightly knit Charlie Hebdo family, even bringing in his mother’s homemade pâté at Christmastime. 
 
 Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
 
 Charlie Hebdo, which was founded in 1970 and grew out of an earlier satirical weekly, Hara-Kiri, was an equal-opportunity offender, taking on the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism and Islam, along with secular targets, including — often wickedly — the politicians who have now rallied to their side. It believed in blasphemy. 
 
 “The only thing that is sacred is free expression,” Ms. Rhazoui said. Their cartoons of Muhammad posed the greatest threat. They were sued for defamation for running the cartoons of Muhammad originally published in a Danish newspaper in 2005 and won the suit. In 2011, the paper’s former offices were firebombed after it published a special Arab Spring edition, “guest edited” by Muhammad, who appears in a cartoon with a clown’s nose saying, “100 lashes if you’re not dead of laughter.” The perpetrators of the firebombing were never found. 
 
 Ever since, the paper had run a little tag on its front page that read “irresponsible publication,” a dig at the critics who said they had been asking for it. “We felt very alone” after the 2011 attack, said Laurent Léger, an investigative reporter at the paper since 2009, who last week survived by ducking and said he would write for this week’s issue about the investigations into the attacks. 
 
 He said he was confident the staff would rally for this week’s issue, but he worried about the weeks to come. “What we’re afraid of is after,” he said.
– Four beloved French cartoonists are among the dead in today's attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Among them: Editor Stephane Charbonnier, or Charb. BuzzFeed reports the 47-year-old has had police protection since 2011 and was two years later added to al-Qaeda's most wanted list. In a 2012 interview with Der Spiegel, he had this to say: "If we worried about the consequences of each of our drawings in each of our 1,057 issues, then we would have had to close shop a long time ago. ... A drawing has never killed anyone." As for his own safety, he said, "I have neither a wife nor children, not even a dog. But I'm not going to hide." More: The other dead cartoonists are Jean Cabut, or Cabu, who has published cartoons in France for 60 years; Georges Wolinski, 80; and Bernard Verlhac, or Tignous, 57. The fifth journalist to be named is Bernard Maris, a 68-year-old economics professor who was the magazine’s deputy editor, reports the Guardian. The Wall Street Journal and the BBC report several of the dead were thought to have been in an editorial meeting when the attack occurred. Footage aired by French TV captures two masked attackers shouting, in French, "We have avenged Prophet Muhammad. We have killed Charlie Hebdo." The Guardian has graphic video of two gunmen shooting a police officer. Though the magazine's website was down for a period, it's now online and bears a single image with a phrase trending on social media: "Je Suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie"). John Kerry said as much today: "Each and every American stands with you today. Not just in horror or in anger or outrage ... but we stand with you in solidarity." The Week rounds up some reactions to the tragedy from cartoonists around the world who have responded in their best way: via cartoon. Another roundup: one from the Daily Beast on the magazine's 16 "most shocking" covers.