Charlie Hebdo publishes its first issue in 6 weeks

Charlie Hebdo returned to print on Wednesday, six weeks after it published a special edition issue on Jan. 14.

The French satirical magazine now has a subscriber base 50 times greater than before militants attacked its Paris office last month, killing 12 people. Before the attack, the magazine had 8,000 subscribers. Now, it has 200,000.

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Wednesday's issue features Marine Le Pen and Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as a bishop, a jihadi, a banker, and a TV news crew, The Guardian reports. The editors expect this week's edition to have a print run of 2.5 million. Last month's special edition issue after the attacks sold eight million copies.