Vatican condemns ‘abominable’ shooting

The Vatican condemned as “abominable” the shooting that killed at least 12 people in the Paris offices of the weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

“It is a double act of violence, abominable because it is both an attack against people as well as against freedom of the press,” said Vatican deputy spokesman Fr Ciro Benedettini.

Elsewhere, Ian Hislop, editor of British satirical magazine Private Eye, said the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting “paid a very high price for exercising their comic liberty”.