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TORONTO – Over 100 people are expected at a downtown Toronto vigil Wednesday afternoon in memory of the 12 people killed at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices in Paris, France.

The vigil is expected to start at 6 p.m. Wednesday outside of the French consulate at 2 Bloor Street East.

The Facebook page, Rally for freedom of the press, democracy and for the Republic, which is organizing the event is asking for a “silent rally, without hatred, to commemorate the memories of the victims killed in Paris.”

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Vigil planned tonight in #Toronto for the victims of the #CharlieHebdo attack. 6pm, French Consulate, 2 Bloor St E. https://t.co/NTYgYg3Ugj — Mackay Taggart (@mackaytaggart) January 7, 2015

The satirical magazine’s office was stormed by three masked gunmen just before noon. At least 12 people, including Stephane Charbonnier, the editor of the magazine and a cartoonist who went by the pen name Charb. Also killed was the cartoonist Cabu.