ANALYSIS – This is the chilling moment that the gunmen who attacked the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, changed from maniacs on a mission to just maniacs.
Having killed the editor and chief cartoonist, as well as opening fire on a number of other people in the office, one of the assailants turns his weapon on a policeman who pleads for his life.
The policeman is executed and with that vanishes any pretence that these men were soldiers fighting in the path of God. One of them may have uttered that God is Great and proclaimed that he had avenged the Prophet, but neither God or his last Prophet would ever condone the murderous actions of these three men, for God is love and his last Prophet conducted every moment of his life with the awareness that every life is precious before the sight of God.