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US, allies condemn deadly attack

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Update: 2015-01-07 09:01:00
US, allies condemn deadly attack Photo Courtesy: The Straits Times

DHAKA: The United States and its allies condemned Wednesday’s deadly shooting attack on a French newspaper in the ‘strongest possible terms’.

‘Everybody here at the White House are with the families of those who were killed or injured in this attack,’ White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, speaking on MSNBC, reports The Straits Times.

‘Senior officials at the White House have been in close touch with their counterparts in France this morning,’ he added. ‘The United States stand ready to work closely with the French’ to help them probe the attack.

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker also condemned the attack, calling it an act of ‘barbarism’.

‘I am profoundly shocked by the brutal and inhuman attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo. This is an intolerable act, an act of barbarism which challenges us all as human and Europeans,’ Juncker said in a statement issued by the 28-nation EU.

German chancellor Angela Merkel says the shooting is not only attack on French citizens, but on freedoms of press and speech.

‘I was shocked to learn of the despicable attack on the newspaper in Paris,’ the German leader wrote. ‘I would like to express to you and your compatriots in this hour of suffering the sympathy of the German people as well my own sorrow, and convey my condolences to the victims’ loved ones’.

Her comment came after British prime minister David Cameron said Britain stood with its ally against ‘all forms of terrorism’.

Cameron made the comments about the attack in Paris at the start of his weekly question and answer session in parliament’s lower House of Commons.

‘I’m sure the whole House will want join me in condemning the barbaric attack this morning on an office of a magazine in Paris,’ he said.

BDST: 1954 HRS, JAN 07, 2015

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