As a fellow European citizen

No I hadn't heard, thank you

I'm glad you asked this. I looked on the comments to find this.

I knew about the attack from the news but then today I learned that most of them were artists for a newspaper. That hit me right in the heart.

To be more precise, 2 men went into Charlie Hebdo's building wednesday. This magazine was about caricatures, denouncing problems of our french society and years before, they had made a caricurature of the muslim prophet, Mahomet. So wednesday, these two men went to "revenge" Mahomet and they killed 12 people. There was 4 caricaturists but also muslims people and a policeman (which makes no sense..) working for Charlie Hebdo. Today they have found these two men but they have kidnapped some people in a factory but they are about to be trapped

How could you not have heard?

I think its mohhamad, not mahomet

Well when this post came out, it was literally the day after. It's not like a year went by and I hadn't heard a thing. Information travels fast but it's never instant.

Just wanted to write again to say that we have lived 3 tragedy in 3 days. Today, 4 people have been killed for religion again, in a Kasher market. Charlie Hebdo's killers have been killed by the police today too. It's a dramatic thing that is spreading through France and also in the whole world.
Je suis Charlie et je suis tous ceux qui sont morts aujourd'hui et les jours précédents
(I am Charlie and I am every one who has been killed today and the days before)

Shurikkaru- the thing that blew my mind about your lack of knowledge of the event in Paris was how many other people on other posts said that they also had no idea. If I remember right you are in the northern US. We have more "news media" in this country than we know what to do with and still a terrorist attack in one of the largest most historically significant cities in Europe (or even the world) goes unnoticed by much of the North American population. I'm a little different in that I subscribe to news updates via text and email and my home pages on every device are news sites so I heard about it within hours and followed developments on various news sites (cnbc let me down, they reported the hajiis dead and captured in less than 24 hours, oops). The failure of the American and Canadian agencies to publicize this disgusts me. Radio and TV should have made enough mention that the world knew what had been done.

Phillip defranco told me about it but it was a day later

And honestly, if you don't know something you should ask. And when I looked it up, I really couldn't find anything.

Then you are plainly awful at using Google, shampoo.

Maybe I am

And what I meant is like the articles I found were not very helpful