Heavily armed gunmen massacred 12 people on Wednesday after bursting into the Paris office of a satirical weekly that had long outraged Muslims with controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed. The late-morning attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in a quiet neighbourhood was the bloodiest in France for at least four decades. Following is a timeline of France's worst attack in at least 40 years. At around 11:20am (10.20 GMT), two masked Kalashnikov-wielding men dressed in black commando-style gear burst into number 6 rue Nicolas-Appert in a Paris neighbourhood, where the archives of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly are based. "Is this Charlie Hebdo?" they shouted, before realizing they had got the wrong address. Moving quickly down the road to number 10, they fired at reception staff and went to the second floor where journalists and cartoonists were holding an editorial conference.
