France is struggling to come to terms with the attack at one of the county’s most controversial and irreverent magazines.<br /><br /> Known for ridiculing politicians and religions of every hue Charlie Hebdo played a major part in French culture.<br /><br /> Of the 12 people shot dead, several were some of the France’s most beloved cartoonists including Cabu whose first drawings were published in 1954.<br /><br /> Along with Wolinski and others the magazine took no prisoners poking fun at anything they considered hypercritical.<br /><br /> The magazine’s editor Stephane Charbonnier, simply known as Charb, had previously received death threats and was living under police protection.<br /><br /> Back in 2011 the magazine had been firebombed after carrying a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.<br /><br /> Two policemen and cartoonist Tignous as well as Hebdo contributer and French economist Bernard Maris were also among those who died in Wednesday’s attack .
