'Charlie Hebdo' Attack Punctuates Exisiting Political Tensions

NPR

Published January 8, 2015 at 4:23 PM EST

Robert Siegel talks to Patrick Weil, professor and senior research fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, about how the attack on the satirical publication, Charlie Hebdo, relates to ongoing political tensions in France.

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