Charlie Hebdo in Paris was sold out in minutes

Three million copies of the Charlie Hebdo magazine with a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on the front cover were sold out in Paris already in the morning.

Just one week has passed since the terrorists gunned down 12 people at the magazine's offices because if its depictions of the Islamic spiritual leader. The cover depicted a sad Prophet Muhammad dressed in white, in his hands he holds a sign with the slogan "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie"). Above the head of the Prophet is another inscription: "Tout est pardonne" ("Everything is forgiven"), RIA Novosti reports.

The issue is also available in electronic format and translated into three languages - English, Spanish and Arabic. In addition, two paper versions were released abroad. In Italy, in collaboration with "Fattah kuotidiano", and in Turkey with the newspaper "Cumhuriyet".

Those who did not buy the magazine could get Liberation newspaper, its cover depicts the front page of Charlie Hebdo.