1. Elsa Cayat was one of 12 victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and was killed along with the seven journalists, maintenance worker, one visitor and two police officers.
16 Facts About Elsa Cayat
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Elsa Cayat was the only woman working for Charlie Hebdo to die in the attack.
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Elsa Cayat was one of two Jews killed in the attack, along with Georges Wolinski.
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Elsa Cayat was born on 9 March 1960 in Sfax, Tunisia.
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Elsa Cayat's family moved to Vincennes when she was a toddler.
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Elsa Cayat was a companion of Paulus Bolten, a shoe designer, and the couple had one daughter, Hortense.
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Elsa Cayat was 54 years old when she was murdered in Paris, France, on 7 January 2015.
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Elsa Cayat was buried in the Jewish section of the Montparnasse Cemetery.
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Elsa Cayat was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, as well as a columnist.
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Elsa Cayat wrote the biweekly column Charlie Divan in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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Elsa Cayat believed that she could help people find meaning in their personal life and emotional difficulties through her column in Charlie Hebdo.
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Elsa Cayat had received threats in connection with her religion and work at Charlie Hebdo over the phone about a month prior to the attack.
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Elsa Cayat continued to write her column after the threats, dismissing them as "verbal garbage".
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Elsa Cayat's family believed she was killed because she was Jewish, based on earlier phone threats.
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Elsa Cayat's funeral was the point of departure for an extended meditation on man's relation to death, mourning and consolation by her friend, the feminist rabbi Delphine Horvilleur.
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In 2015, Elsa Cayat received the Legion of Honour award.