Twelve people were shot and killed in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper on Wednesday. <br /><br /> Eight were staff members, two were police officers, one was a visitor and a another a cleaner.<br /><br /> Here is a brief word about each of them.<br /><br /> Maintenance man Frédéric Boisseau, 49, a father of two, was in the reception area, where he was the first to fall. <br /><br /> Franck Brinsolaro, 48, a married father of two children, was a police officer assigned to protect Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier.<br /><br /> Cartoonist Jean Cabut, pen-name Cabu, used to draw for another French satirical magazine, ‘Hara Kiri’.<br /><br /> He said: “Each religion is an ideology. We can criticise all ideologies. I don’t see why we can’t. So we keep doing it.”<br /><br /> Cabu, 67, was true to his equal opportunity principle of critical observation, for instance caricaturing an average French brother-in-law as racist, sexist and vulgar — one of his most popular characters, Mon Beauf.<br /><br /> Elsa Cayat, 56, contributed to the newspaper a
