Long queues have formed at newsstands in France for the latest edition of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Five million copies are being printed - a week after Islamist
gunmen murdered 12 people at its offices and five others in subsequent
attacks in Paris.
The cover shows a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad
weeping while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie" - the message of
support for the magazine.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed the attack in a video purportedly from the group.
It is believed earlier cartoons of the Prophet prompted the attack on the magazine.
In a separate attack in Paris two days later, four Jewish men
died after an Islamist gunmen took hostages at a kosher shop in the
French capital.
A police woman was shot dead in a third shooting believed to have been carried out by the same attacker.
Three million copies of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo were originally printed for distribution.
Copies in France quickly sold out on Wednesday morning.
Editors then decided to increase the print run to five million.
Normally, only 60,000 are printed each week.
Demand for what is being called the "survivors' issue" of the
magazine is high, in part because the proceeds will go to the victims'
families, correspondents say.
Kiosk owners told French media they had received large
numbers of reservation requests, while at one shop in Paris all copies
were reportedly sold out within five minutes.
New threats
Charlie Hebdo's decision to publish another cartoon of the
Prophet has already generated threats from militant Islamist websites
and criticism from the Islamic world, the BBC's Chris Morris in Paris
reports.
Why is it important for Parisians to buy this issue of Charlie Hebdo?
The self-styled Islamic State (IS) militant group said on its
radio station that the publication of the cartoon was "an extremely
stupid act".
Meanwhile, a new video said to be from al-Qaeda in Yemen
(AQAP) was aired on Wednesday saying the group was behind last week's
attack on the magazine.
Supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly had pledged allegiance to
IS in a video message, while the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Said and
Cherif Kopuachi, had said they were acting on behalf of AQAP.
Coulibaly had also said they had co-ordinated the attacks,
but experts say it is highly unlikely IS and AQAP, rivals in the Middle
East, would plan an attack together.
Hugh Schofield in Paris on the new edition:
There's the full-page cartoon of a weeping Muhammad on the front cover, but inside there are no more caricatures of the Prophet.
There are plenty - in the paper's characteristic scurrilous
vein - of Muslim extremists. In one cartoon, two terrorists are seen
ascending to heaven and asking: "Where are the 70 virgins?" In the
background, the murdered staff at Charlie Hebdo are enjoying an orgy.
An editorial thanks the millions of people who have declared
themselves as Charlie in the past few days - but it says it wants no
more of the past insinuations that by provoking Muslims, it has somehow
brought trouble on itself.
The issue will be available in six languages - including English, Arabic and Turkish - some in print and some online.
Editor-in-chief Gerard Biard told reporters: "We are happy to
have done it and happy to have been able to do it, to have achieved it.
It was tough. The front page... was complicated to put together,
because it had to express something new, it had to say something
relating to the event that we had to deal with."
Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gerard Biard comforted Renald "Luz" Luzier, who drew the latest cover, at a news conference
Outside France, the Washington Post, Germany's Frankfurter
Allgemeine, Corriere della Sera in Italy and the UK's Guardian are among
publications to show the cartoon.
Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet has published a section of the
magazine, including a small image of the cover in one of its columns. It
had originally planned to publish the full edition, but scaled down its
plans due to security concerns.
Very few outlets in the Middle East and North Africa have shown the image.
Comedian arrested
Referring to last week's shocking events, French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls said his country was at war with extremism and
terrorism - but not with Muslims.
He was speaking on Tuesday after funeral ceremonies were held for seven of the victims in France and Israel.
France has deployed 10,000 troops at various sites across the
country - including synagogues, mosques and airports - in response to
the attacks.
Meanwhile, controversial French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala was arrested on Wednesday for "defending terrorism".
Police opened an investigation into the comic on Monday,
after he wrote on a Facebook post "I feel like Charlie Coulibaly" -
merging Charlie Hebdo with the name of supermarket gunman Amedy
Coulibaly.
Suspect on the run
The three days of violence in Paris began after brothers Said
and Cherif Kouachi attacked the magazine's office. They shouted "We have
avenged the Prophet Muhammad" after the shootings.
New mobile phone footage shows the Kouachi brothers opening fire on police
The brothers were later killed by French security services after a stand-off in a town north of Paris.
Separately, Coulibaly - whom investigators have linked to the
brothers - killed the four men at the kosher supermarket on Friday,
apparently before police stormed the building. Coulibaly is also
believed to have shot dead the policewoman the day before.
His partner Hayat Boumeddiene is now thought to be in Syria.
She has been identified as a suspect by French police, although she left
France before the attacks.
How the attacks unfolded (all times GMT)
- Wednesday 7 January 10:30 - Two masked gunmen enter Charlie Hebdo offices, killing 11 people, including the magazine's editor. Shortly after the attack, the gunmen kill a police officer nearby.
- 11:00 - Police lose track of the men after they abandon their getaway car and hijack another vehicle. They are later identified as brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi.
- Thursday 8 January 08:45 - A lone gunman shoots dead a policewoman and injures a man in the south of Paris. Gunman later identified as Amedy Coulibaly.
- 10:30 - The Kouachi brothers rob a service station near Villers-Cotterets, in the Aisne region, but disappear again.
- Friday 9 January 08:30 - Police exchange gunfire with the Kouachi brothers during a car chase on the National 2 highway northeast of Paris.
- 10:00 - Police surround the brothers at an industrial building in at Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) from Paris.
- 12:15 - Coulibaly reappears and takes several people hostage at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris. Heavily-armed police arrive and surround the store.
- 16:00 - Kouachi brothers come out of the warehouse, firing at police. They are both shot dead.
- 16:15 - Police storm the kosher supermarket in Paris, killing Coulibaly and rescuing 15 hostages. The bodies of four hostages are recovered.
- Credit: BBC
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