Thursday, 8 January 2015

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who let the terrorist into the office speaks, says she was under desk as massacre took place

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Corrine Rey (pictured above) was the person who let two armed terrorists into the French satirical magazine's office today. The young mother said she 'd just returned from picking her daughter from school when she was confronted by the men who threatened to kill her daughter if she doesn't give them the entry code for the building.

"I had gone to pick up my daughter at day care, arriving in front of the magazine building, where two masked and armed men brutally threatened us. They said they wanted to go up to the offices, so I tapped in the code" she told a French publication

The young mother said she and her daughter hid under a desk where they witnessed the massacre, and killing of at least two cartoonist."They shot Wolinski and Cabu. It lasted five minutes. I had taken refuge under a desk." See photos of the people who died after the cut...


 

Corrinne Rey survived
Killed: Stephane Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo

Cartoonist Georges Wolinski was killed
Lead cartoonist Jean 'Cabu' Cabut (left) and with Bernard 'Tignous' Verlhac (right) were killed

Contributor, Bernard Maris, was another of the victims

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