![APTOPIX France Newspaper Attack French President Francois Hollande, center, with at his side interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, left, and Paris police prefect Bernard Boucault, right, stands for a minute of silence, at Paris Prefecture in Paris, Jan. 8, 2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-01.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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![APTOPIX France Newspaper Attack French President Francois Hollande, center, with at his side interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, left, and Paris police prefect Bernard Boucault, right, stands for a minute of silence, at Paris Prefecture in Paris, Jan. 8, 2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-01.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![After the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo The French national flag waves at a half mast on a building in Paris, Jan. 8,2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-03.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Vigils and minute of silence for Charlie Hebdo attack A young woman holds aloft a symbolic people as she joins others gathered for a minute of silence in front of Notre Dame cathedral, in Paris, Jan. 8, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-04.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![FRANCE-ATTACKS-MEDIA-SILENCE Journalists of international press agency Agence France-Presse hold signs reading "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) at their headquarters in Paris as they observe a minute of silence on Jan. 8, 2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-08.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![FRANCE-ATTACKS-MEDIA People observe a minute of silence in front of the city hall in Toulouse, on Jan. 8, 2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-09.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![FRANCE-ATTACKS-MEDIA People observe a minute of silence in Strasbourg, eastern France on Jan. 8, 2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-10.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Vigils and minute of silence for Charlie Hebdo attack Young Parisians gather for a minute of silence in front of Notre Dame cathedral, Jan 8, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-07.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Vigils and minute of silence for Charlie Hebdo attack An older citizen removes his hat in a rain shower as he joins others gathered for a minute of silence in front of Notre Dame cathedral, Jan. 8, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-05.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-FRANCE-ATTACKS-MEDIA Floral tributes are laid on the ground during a minutes silence in Paris on Jan. 8, 2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Gunmen kill 12 at French magazine Charlie Hebdo A poster reads 'Je suis Charlie' (I am Charlie) amid symbolic pens and pencils on Place de la Republique as people gather for a minute of silence commemorating those killed in a shooting at French satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo', in Paris, Jan. 8, 2015.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/france-moment-of-silence-charlie-hebdo-06.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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