Thousands have been turning up to news stands in Paris to buy the first edition of Charlie Hebdo since the jihadist attack on the magazine last week which left 12 people dead.
The cover features a weeping Prophet Mohammed holding an "I am Charlie" sign under a headline which reads "All are forgiven."
Staff at the magazine are defending their decision to illustrate a sympathetic caricature of the prophet, which the religion of islam considers blasphemy, and say it was not a cover the terrorists would have preferred, but it's what the magazine wanted.
This week 3 million copies of the magazine have been printed instead of the usual 60,000.
Since early Wednesday morning Parisians have been scrambling to get a copy, as our correspondent Sandra Gathmann in Paris describes:
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But despite criticism from some muslim communities, the magazine has remained true to its controversial style, as our correspondent Sandra Gathmann in Paris describes:
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