UNS dismayed by terrorist attack on French weekly

BELGRADE - Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) has said that it is dismayed by the terrorist attack on the renowned French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that has killed 12 people, including the editor-in-chief, journalists and members of the editorial board, as well as two security policemen.

It is the most serious armed attack on journalists and an entire editorial board in a country that is not at war, the UNS said in a statement.

In a message of solidarity, UNS members asked their French colleagues to convey the condolences of Serbian journalists to the families of those killed.

This act of terrorism will be remembered in the same way as the crime in which 16 media professionals of Radio Television of Serbia were killed during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro, the statement said.

In Wednesday's attack on the Charlie Hebdo office in downtown Paris, eight journalists and two policemen were killed.

As reported by Agence France-Presse, the list of victims includes the weekly's editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, and three more caricaturists known throughout France as Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski.

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