British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned Wednesday the terrorist attack on France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine.
“The murders in Paris are sickening. We stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press,” Cameron tweeted.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also expressed his “outrage” over the “despicable” attack on the magazine.
Ki-moon called the crime “horrendous, unjustifiable and cold-blooded” while speaking to the press and the public Wednesday morning.
Paris remains on high alert after 12 were killed in what French President Francois Hollande called “an act of exceptional barbarity” against the press. Four more people are in critical condition and an additional 20 were injured when hooded attackers entered the satirical weekly magazine’s offices and opened fire, police said.
At dusk, the gunmen were still at large.
