BRUSSELS
European Parliament President Martin Schulz and hundreds of MEPs have observed a minute of silence outside the Parliament in Brussels for the victims of the gun attack on the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
"Like you, as we are all, I'm Charlie," Schulz said standing in the rain outside the European Parliament building on Thursday.
Hundreds of people also gathered outside the European Commission -- the 28-nation bloc's executive body -- in Brussels later on the same day to observe a silence for Charlie Hebdo.
There are 28 EU flags standing outside of the European Commission in Brussels. The 28 flags, each representing a EU member state, flew at half mast on Thursday to commemorate the victims at Charlie Hebdo.
Three masked armed men armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles attacked people inside the satirical magazine’s building on Wednesday. Eight people were injured, four critically, before they fled the building.
Famous satirical journalists and cartoonists such as Stephane "Charb" Charbonnier, Bernard "Tignou" Verlhac, Jean Cabu and George Wolinski were among those killed at the Charlie Hebdo magazine.
