( CNN ) Attacks on press freedom traditionally provoke a strong response from newspaper editors around the world , and Wednesday 's horrific attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo was no exception . As French police hunted for two suspects still on the run , headlines in Thursday 's printed press reported the shooting with a potent mix of defiance and grief . French daily Libération ran a black front page with the words in bold white : `` Nous Sommes Tous Charlie '' -- `` We are all Charlie , '' echoing the crowds that took to the streets of Paris and other major cities to denounce the attack . L'Equipe , a French daily covering sports , ran a full-page cartoon showing stunned and teary sports fans with the headline `` Liberté 0 - Barbarie 12 , '' alluding to the 12 people -- 10 journalists and two police officers -- who were killed in the assault . Le Figaro was one of a number of newspapers that printed an image showing the gunmen at the scene . Its headline declared `` La liberté assassinée , '' or `` freedom assassinated . '' In a strongly worded column , the paper 's editorial director , Alexis Brézet , called for a vigorous defense to the threats to press freedom , accusing the gunmen of striking at the heart of free expression . Le Télégramme 's front page branded the word `` assassinés '' across the names of the magazine and the known victims , the magazine 's leading cartoonists and editors who were gunned down during a morning meeting . The front page of Germany 's Bild called it a `` cowardly murder . '' In the United Kingdom , The Telegraph said the attack was a `` War on Freedom , '' while The Guardian called it `` An assault on democracy . '' An accompanying editorial in The Guardian said the events were `` beyond belief , indeed beyond words . '' `` The hooded thugs trained their Kalashnikovs on free speech everywhere . If they are allowed to force a loss of nerve , conversation will become inhibited , and liberty of thought itself will falter too . '' The Times of London ran a front-page image of the shocking moment that one gunman pointed his weapon at a wounded police officer lying on the ground , with the words , `` Do you want to kill me ? '' The headline ran `` Attack on Freedom . '' The choice of photo attracted fierce criticism on social media with users condemning it as `` way too graphic '' and `` highly disrespectful . '' One user tweeted , `` Why show the one image they want you to print , and not the cartoons ? '' The Independent took a different tack , running a full-page image of a bloodied cover of Charlie Hebdo , with a hand emerging showing a raised middle finger . The yellow hand was holding a nib dripping with red ink . Fittingly , there were no words . In the United States , an editorial in The New York Times praised French President Francois Hollande for his appeal for national unity . This is `` no time for peddlers of xenophobia to try to smear all Muslims with a terrorist brush . '' An opinion piece in The Washington Post draws a link to the recent cyberattack against Sony , saying `` Suddenly , satire is the great issue of our time . '' Cartoonists , it says , `` take big risks , bigger than perhaps even they realize or anticipate , '' and Western democracies must `` rally to their unequivocal defense . '' Danish daily broadsheet Politiken also chose to lead with a drawing : a simple image of a pencil that appears to break while drawing a line , which paused ... then continued on . In Germany , national daily Das Bild ran a front-page image of one of the gunmen shooting a police officer on the ground . `` Cowardly murderer , '' said the headline . The paper also has a piece quoting Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard , known for his controversial depictions of the Prophet Mohammed , in which he insists that despite the fear many journalists feel , himself included , they must continue to use satire . The front page of Belgium 's De Standaard reproduces a 2011 Charlie Hebdo cartoon of two men kissing deeply , one who appears to be Muslim and the other wearing a Charlie Hebdo T-shirt with a pencil behind his ear . `` Love is stronger than hate , '' is written above it in French . Haaretz did n't share that sentiment . `` I 'm afraid the bad guys have already won . No cartoonist or publisher anywhere would dare start up with them now , '' said a headline on the English edition of the Israeli newspaper . The Gulf News , published in the United Arab Emirates , ran the story on its front page with a picture of a survivor being carried away on a stretcher and a box titled `` UAE solidarity -- raid condemned . '' An editorial says the attackers `` violated all human principles and ethical values and deserve to be caught and tried for their disgusting acts , '' and their actions had `` nothing to do with Islam . '' Charlie Hebdo had published cartoons of Mohammed `` that were certainly offensive to many Muslims , '' it said . `` But that is no reason to kill anyone , nor to commit any such act of gross violence . '' The English-language Kuwait Times also had a front-page picture of one of the injured being carried away on a stretcher . The Arab Times , also published in Kuwait , ran that image and two others showing the police response . A headline in red ink read : `` Worst terrorist attack on French soil condemned . '' India 's Telegraph newspaper , published in Calcutta , ran the headline `` Bullet through a tradition '' next to an image of a bullet hole in a window near the attack scene . The story also made the front page of the New Indian Express and Pakistan 's Dawn newspaper .
Women 's newspapers around the world disagreed with the mass shooting . Many saw the assault as an attack on freedom and free speech . Many papers published front - page stories as a tribute to the women killed in the attack .