This week will see France mark a week of solemn commemorations - one year after these events in Paris. A deadly shooting at the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo carried out by Islamist militants during an editorial meeting left 11 people dead, including many of the magazine's top staff and editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier.

The publication will release a special edition this week with a characteristically provocative cover. It shows a cartoon of an angry God with blood on his hands and a Kalashnikov rifle strapped to his back with the headline "One year later, the assassin is still on the run."

The men behind the massacre at Charlie Hebdo were subsequently named as brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi. They were born and radicalised in Paris and known to the French authorities.

After the attack they went on the run for two days, before eventually being tracked down and killed during a major manhunt by French police.

On the same day, a friend of the brothers took several hostages in a kos her supermarket on the eastern fringes of Paris. He took the lives of four people, before himself being killed in a massive police raid.

The attacks prompted national mourning and an international outcry, with several days of protests in Paris, including a giant march through the French capital which saw world leaders arm-in-arm leading over 1 million people.

In spite of the shootings, Charlie Hebdo went to press the following week, with a cartoon of the prophet Muhammed on its front cover with a slogan reading "All is forgiven." The paper sold out in minutes despite an initial print run of several million.

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