PARIS: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo unveiled on Tuesday a tribute cover for the victims of Paris attacks showing a dancing reveller with bottle and glass in hand, and champagne pouring out of bullet holes in his body.

"They have weapons," the caption reads, adding: "Screw them, we have champagne."

While some on social media saw the new cover as a defiant response to the perpetrators of the Paris attacks, others deemed it insensitive and distasteful.

Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) itself lost 12 staff in a brazen attack by gunmen in January this year.

The killings shocked the world and brought millions onto the streets across France in support of Charlie Hebdo, a small struggling magazine whose circulation has since soared to more than 300,000.

The magazine — well known for courting controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders — came under fire for publishing sacrilegious cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).

Following the attacks, the magazine began moving into new high-security offices in southern Paris.

Almost 10 months later, in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II, a wave of coordinated attacks left more than 129 dead in scenes of carnage in Paris Friday.

The self-styled Islamic State (IS) militant group had claimed responsibility for the attacks that French President Francois Hollande called an "act of war."