Strasbourg (AFP)
A dozen journalists and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo will participate on November 2 in a debate in Strasbourg on the sidelines of the World Forum for Democracy, which will be their first collective public intervention since the bloodbath of January 2015, we learned on Monday. near the town hall.
"This is the first time they are all together for public intervention," said AFP Nawel Rafik-Elmrini, deputy mayor of Strasbourg in charge of European and international affairs.
This meeting will "send the message that life goes on and that Charlie continues", almost five years after the deadly attack on the satirical weekly but also almost a year after the attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg, according to Rafik-Elmrini.
The two-hour meeting, which will be held at the Strasbourg Opera, will be divided into three round tables, which will evoke the themes: "what is an opinion journal?", "Censorship and threats" and "soon 50 years of Charlie Hebdo".
Each round table, she said, will be followed by an exchange with the public, a signing session is also scheduled at the end of the event.
According to the press service of the satirical weekly, about fifteen journalists and cartoonists of the weekly, "a very large majority of the editorial staff", will be present.
Among those expected are Charlie Hebdo's director, Riss, who published in early October a story of the deadly attack of January 7, 2015 titled "One minute forty-nine seconds", and the cartoonist Coco, who has just adapted the Banquet of Plato in comic strip.
Organized by the Council of Europe, the World Forum for Democracy will be held from 6 to 8 November in Strasbourg, on the theme "information: democracy in danger?" and will be accompanied by many "off" events, organized in particular by the town hall.
On January 7, 2015, brothers Sherif and Said Kouachi killed 12 people at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, before being shot two days later.
Designers Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, economist Bernard Maris, police officer Franck Brinsolaro who was protecting Charb, the corrector Mustapha Ourrad and Michel Renaud, Frédéric Boisseau and Ahmed Merabet were mown down by kalashnikovs fire.
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