French president honours Charlie Hebdo and supermarket attack victims

French president Francois Hollande has honoured 17 victims killed in Islamic extremist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kosher supermarket and police a year ago this week, unveiling plaques around Paris marking violence that ushered in a tumultuous year.

Victims’ families joined Mr Hollande and other dignitaries near the building where Charlie Hebdo staff were holding an editorial meeting when two heavily armed brothers stormed in on January 7, 2015, killing 11 people. The plaque begins: “To the memory of victims of the terrorist attack against freedom of expression.”