France’s biggest satirical weekly, “Le Canard Enchaine” said it received a gruesome death threat the day after gunmen shot dead 12 people in an attack against Charlie Hebdo magazine.

Le Canard Enchaine says in its edition being released Wednesday that an email sent to the paper on January 8 warned “It’s your turn” and threatened to slash its journalists to pieces “with an axe”.

“Given the context, surveillance was strengthened” and police have opened an investigation, the paper wrote.

Le Canard Enchaine is the country’s most popular satirical weekly, with a circulation of almost half a million compared to Charlie Hebdo’s 60,000.

 

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(L-R) President of Bundestag Norbert Lammer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Joachim Gauck, the chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Aiman Mazyek, German Vice Chancellor, Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller walk from the Brandenburg Gate to the French embassy during a vigil organised by Muslim groups for the victims of last week’s shooting by gunmen at the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in Berlin January 13, 2015. REUTERS
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The cover of satirical weekly of Charlie Hebdo is seen in this handout image released January 11, 2015. (Reuters)

 

 

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Gunmen return to their car after engaging with a police patrol car after the attack on the offices of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in this still image taken from exclusive amateur video shot January 7, 2015. Twelve people were slain, including two police officers, during last week's attack by Islamist militants Cherif and Said Kouachi. REUTERS
Gunmen return to their car after engaging with a police patrol car after the attack on the offices of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in this still image taken from exclusive amateur video shot January 7, 2015. Twelve people were slain, including two police officers, during last week’s attack by Islamist militants Cherif and Said Kouachi. REUTERS