Charlie Hebdo Latest News: French Magazine to Print a Million Copies Next Week

French weekly Charlie Hebdo is set to print a million copies next Wednesday, almost 30 times than usual, despite the killing of its leading cartoonists.

The paper announced this before two suspected attackers were killed when the police stormed their hideout on Friday.

Charlie Hebdo's lawyer Richard Malka said the print run -- which is normally about 30,000 copies but rises to 200,000 for the most controversial issues -- would be set at a million even as the attack badly damaged the offices and left them with no equipment to work with.

"We have decided to continue Charlie with those who survived," Malka told left-wing daily Liberation, which hosts the satirical paper. "It's our way of saying that no, they did not kill Charlie, they haven't won."

French media rallied around the satirical paper on Thursday, a day after militants killed 12 people as journalists held an editorial meeting, to ensure its next edition appears on time by offering funds and office space.

The newspaper had been in temporary offices since its Paris headquarters was firebombed in 2011 after printing a cartoon mocking Islam's Prophet Mohammad.

Patrick Pelloux, a Charlie Hebdo columnist who was not in the office during the attack, sobbed as he was interviewed by a TV journalist. "It will be tough," he said. "We must not give in."

Radio France, France Televisions and the Paris daily Le Monde announced late on Wednesday they would provide "all the human and material means necessary so that Charlie Hebdo continues to live." They also asked other media to join them "to preserve the principles of independence of thought and expression that guarantee our democracy." Several more pledged their support on Thursday.

Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, one of the attack's casualties, had asked readers for funds in November as the paper, which carries no advertisements, needed to sell 35,000 to break even.

French publishers have agreed to contribute 250,000 euros while a fund for new media partly backed by Google would contribute a similar amount, according to the business daily Les Echos. News distributors agreed to display the next edition prominently in their kiosks and shops.

"They wanted to kill Charlie Hebdo," Les Echos chief executive Francis Morel told his staff. "Not only did they not succeed, but we want Charlie Hebdo to emerge stronger from this tragedy."

Asterix creator Albert Uderzo, 87, said he would come out of retirement to help illustrate the "enfant terrible" of the French press.

French Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin said the government was ready to grant the satirical weekly a million euros ($1.18 million) "so it can continue next week and the week after that and the week after that."