At 11.30 am CET three masked gunmen entered the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and slaughtered ten unarmed staff and two policemen.<br /><br /> Five other people are said to be in a critical condition.<br /><br /> The three men armed with Kalashnikov’s and a rocket launcher plus a driver made their escape in a black Citroen.<br /><br /> Reports from the French capital say the men then abandoned the vehicle in the north east of the city and car jacked a white Renault and made their way to the 11th arrondisement the most densly populated urban areas of Paris.<br /><br /> France is now on high alert and a full scale manhunt for the attackers is underway. <br /><br /> (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<br /> Post by euronews.<br /><br /> Three thousand officers are on the streets of the capital and the army has been deployed to guard major sites in the city.<br /><br /> No one group has claimed responsibility, but the Arabic phrase Allāhu Akbar, God is Great, was clearly heard as the attack was underway. <br /><br /> The satirical weekly has courted controversy in the past with its irreverent view on the world and current affairs. <br /><br /> It was firebombed in November 2011 a day after it carried a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.<br /><br /> According to the French President Francois Hollande France is in a “state of shock.”<br /><br /> The French security services are now firmly focused on apprehending the three gunmen.
