Here is a complete lit of victims:
Stephane "Charb" Charbonnier, artist and publishing director
Jean "Cabu" Cabut, lead cartoonist
Bernard "Tignous" Verlhac, cartoonist
Georges Wolinski, cartoonist
Bernard "Uncle Bernard" Maris, economist and columnist
Phillipe Honore, cartoonist
Michel Renaud -- former journalist
Mustapha Ourrad -- copy editor
Elsa Cayat -- columnist and analyst
Frederic Boisseau -- building maintenance worker
Franck Brinsolaro -- police officer
Ahmed Merabet -- police officer
They were humorists. They were telling jokes, provoking thought, for crying out loud. Proof positive that the people who can't take a joke are dangerous. Without humor, there's no freedom. It's ironic, but not funny, that one of the slain officers was a Muslim.