For Charlie Hebdo it is democracy that these assassins want to behead

After the assassination of the History professor in Conflans, Charlie Hebdo makes its

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This Wednesday, the front page of Charlie Hebdo will be on “the decapitated republic”.

The drawing showing severed heads representing various professions refers to the assassinated History professor in Conflans.

Samuel Paty was beheaded by a terrorist last Friday for showing his students caricatures of Muhammad published in the weekly.

In this issue to be published Wednesday, Riss, the editorial director, has drawn in one of the heads of firefighter, postwoman, judge, nurse and Emmanuel Macron, with the question "Who's next?"

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“The freedoms to teach, to express oneself, to discuss and to question each other, word after word, build our common language, the basis of any democracy.

There is no doubt today that through their victims it is the entire democracy that these assassins want to decapitate, ”writes Riss in his editorial.

"We turn to Charlie, as if Charlie had the solution"

"The act is so unheard of that it is beyond our strength to admit that we are witnesses of unprecedented violence, of an event that will make a mark and will force us to admit that there is a + before + and a + after + ”, considers the editorial director.

“In the aftermath of such a crime, the question that haunts us is what actions to take to defeat this ideology.

We turn to Charlie, as if Charlie had the solution, we turn to the politicians as if the politicians had the solution (…) and in the end we turn to the professors as if the professors had the solution ”, continues- he.

"Poor humans, miserable humans, insignificant humans"

"Paralyzed by the determination of the terrorists, we end up behaving, without even realizing it, as if they were really inspired by a superior force, capable of unleashing divine violence.

While in reality they are only humans, poor humans, miserable humans, insignificant humans ”, adds the text entitled“ Knowledge or nothingness ”.

The attack on Samuel Paty, professor, came three weeks after the one in front of the former Charlie Hebdo premises in Paris, while the trial of the January 2015 attacks that decimated the weekly's editorial staff is being held until November 10. .

The newspaper's editorial staff have been the subject of new threats, from Al-Qaeda in particular, since the republication of the cartoons of Muhammad on September 2 for the opening of the trial.

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