Relatives and friends of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Bernard Verlhac gathered at a Paris cemetery on Thursday to pay their respects to the artist who together with nine of his work colleagues was shot dead in the newspaper's office last week.

Verlhac, who drew under the name Tignous, was born in Paris in 1957 and published his first works in Charlie Hebdo in 1980.

Among hundreds of mourners who came to the Pere Lachaise Cemetery, where Verlhac was buried earlier on Thursday, was his friend Franck Glemin.

Glemin said he was angry that his friend was "poorly protected" and that the killing "shouldn't have happened."

Among the people who came to the cemetery braving the rain was Marcelo Milchberg from Argentina.

Milchberg said he wanted to show solidarity with the cartoonist and his colleagues.

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Georges Wolinski, columnists Bernard Maris and Elsa Cayat, and Franck Brinsolaro, the policeman bodyguard for slain Charlie Hebdo chief Stephane Charbonnier, were also buried on Thursday.

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Paris - 15 January 2015

1. Pan of crowd gathering at entrance of Pere Lachaise Cemetery, police in crowd

2. Mourner holding sign reading (French) "I am Muslim, I have come here and I share your sorrow."

3. Police guarding entrance

4. Mourners walking inside cemetery

5. SOUNDBITE (French) Battista Glemin-Orsini, friend of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, Bernard Verlhac:

"He was cool, he told me: 'Maybe one day you'll join our team in Charlie Hebdo in a few years,' it was nice of him to say that. I would have loved to see him again but it's too late."

6. Mourners going through gates

7 SOUNDBITE (French) Franck Glemin, friend of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, Bernard Verlhac:

"It shouldn't have happened because he was poorly protected. Very poorly. That's it."

8. People walking with flowers, police guarding

9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marcelo Milchberg, Charlie Hebdo supporter from Argentina:

"I think it is important to be here to show our solidarity with the cartoonist and his colleagues, for the work that he did, for the courage he demonstrated and for the ideals he fought for all his life. I'm happy that there are a lot of people here."

10. Various of mourners gathered outside cemetery

Friends, family and officials paid their last respects on Thursday to Charlie Hebdo columnist Elsa Cayat, who was among the 12 killed in the January 7 attack on the satirical newspaper's offices in Paris.

Cayat, who was 54 when she died, was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery in southern Paris.

A psychoanalyst, Cayat wrote a column twice a month for Charlie Hebdo on various topics ranging from the origins of the Holocaust to parental authority.

The 54-year-old Jewish woman was a heavy smoker and wrote books on desire, love and sexuality.

One friend attending her funeral said she sometimes spent as little as two hours a month at the Charlie Hebdo offices

Among those who attended was Cayat's colleague at Charlie Hebdo, Renald Luzier, also known as Luz, the cartoonist who drew the latest Charlie Hebdo cover which shows a weeping Muhammad, holding a sign reading "I am Charlie" with the words "All is forgiven" above him.

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Paris - 15 Jan 2015

1. Wide tracking shot of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald Luzier, also known as Luz, arriving at funeral of Charlie Hebdo columnist Elsa Cayat

2. Mid of Luz entering cemetery

3. SOUNDBITE (French) Carole Azoulay, Elsa Cayat's friend:

"Elsa was an extraordinary girl. All those approaching her were immediately seduced. She was the symbol of intelligence, humanity and humour and audacity. She wasn't afraid of anything, she was nonconformist; she was surprising and fair. It is true, she was brilliant."

4. Close of police guarding cemetery entrance

5. Wide of people entering cemetery

6. Mid of people waiting to enter cemetery

7. Wide of people entering cemetery

8. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Levy, Elsa Cayat's friend :

"She was spending (at Charlie Hebdo offices) maybe two hours per week, sometimes (only) two hours per month. Sometimes she was just emailing her article and she wasn't going there. That (her death) was a surprise, moreover because I spent New Year's eve with her, we were partying with all her and my friends. Who would believe that seven days later she would be reached in that way."

9. Tilt up from paper to Levy's face as he reads a song written for Elsa Cayat

10. Various of people leaving cemetery

11. Luz, Charlie Hebdo cartoonist leaving