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French President Francois Hollande (C) poses (from L) with Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Edouard Balladur, Nicolas Sarkozy, Alain Juppe and Francois Fillon at the Elysee Presidential Palace on January 11, 2015 in Paris prior to take part to the demonstration in tribute to the 17 victims of a three-day killing spree by homegrown Islamists. The killings began on January 7 with an assault on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that saw two brothers massacre 12 people including some of the country’s best-known cartoonists, the killing of a policewoman and the storming of a Jewish supermarket on the eastern fringes of the capital which killed 4 local residents. AFP PHOTO / MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE