WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement regarding today’s terrorist attack in France:
“I express my sincere condolences to the families of those innocent people who lost their lives in today’s terrorist attack at the office of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo. This horrific attack on an independent media outlet is an attack against our values and our freedoms. France and the United States have stood shoulder to shoulder throughout history to defend these shared ideals, and today, we stand again in solidarity with the French people and its government as they seek to bring to justice the perpetrators of this attack.”
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