'They spared me because I am a woman... but said I had to wear a veil': Horrific ordeal of Charlie Hebdo survivors who saw colleagues slaughtered in attack

The Daily Mail reports:

A journalist has revealed how the terrorists who massacred her Charlie Hebdo colleagues spared her life - because she was a woman.

Reporter Sigolene Vinson survived the brutal attack on the French satirical magazine, in which 12 people including six of her co-workers and two police officers were shot dead.

She told Radio France Internationale that one of the killers held a gun to her head, but decided against killing her too.

Miss Vinson said the one of the shooters told her: 'I'm not killing you because you are a woman and we don't kill women but you have to convert to Islam, read the Qu'ran and wear a veil.'

She added that the men shouted 'Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar' as they fled the scene.

Charlie Hebdo magazine staff thought a terrorist attack on their offices was a 'joke' involving fire crackers before being gunned down in cold blood, it emerged today.

Their religion guided them.