Twelve people were shot and killed in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper on Wednesday.

Eight were staff members, two were police officers, one was a visitor and a another a cleaner.

Here is a brief word about each of them.

Maintenance man Frédéric Boisseau, 49, a father of two, was in the reception area, where he was the first to fall.

Franck Brinsolaro, 48, a married father of two children, was a police officer assigned to protect Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier.

Cartoonist Jean Cabut, pen-name Cabu, used to draw for another French satirical magazine, ‘Hara Kiri’.

He said: “Each religion is an ideology. We can criticise all ideologies. I don’t see why we can’t. So we keep doing it.”

Cabu, 67, was true to his equal opportunity principle of critical observation, for instance caricaturing an average French brother-in-law as racist, sexist and vulgar — one of his most popular characters, Mon Beauf.

Elsa Cayat, 56, contributed to the newspaper a