The Charlie Hebdo newspaper is launching the first edition of its satirical drawing prize on Thursday on the theme "Living without a laptop". The competition is aimed at young non-professional cartoonists aged 18 to 25 who can therefore send their drawing to the editorial staff of the newspaper until March 15. "We want to get them to question themselves. If they are able to do so on something that, in my opinion, is so important to them (…) it will already be a big step forward," said Thursday on Europe 1 the designer of Charlie Hebdo Juin.
"The taste of making fun of everything"
"You have to know Charlie pretty well I think to participate in this competition, so you have to read the newspaper and know your spirit. You have to love satire, want to practice it and have a taste for freedom of expression", continues the one who joined the newspaper after the attack on January 7, 2015. He who always "wanted to work at Charlie " tells an editorial staff in which he "was able to [quickly] integrate" where there is the "taste for making fun of everything ", but also the memory of that day in 2015." We saw it with the attacks of January 7, we must always prepare for the aftermath, "he said.
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"To make this freedom exist, it must be practiced"
More than arousing vocations among young people, the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo hopes above all to bring freedom of expression to life. "The right to make fun exists. To make this freedom to make fun exist, you have to practice it in fact. It is useless to proclaim that we are free, that we have the right to do things, if we don't do them, "said the designer. "We cannot eternally represent freedom of expression. People must seize it. You in your job as a journalist, listeners in their relationships with others ... Everyone must affirm the diversity of their ideas . "
The award ceremony will take place on March 23.