Charlie Hebdo: Macron defends "the freedom to blaspheme" in France

Emmanuel Macron again defended Tuesday "the freedom to blaspheme" in France about the republication by

of the cartoons of Mohammed, during a press conference in Beirut.

"Tomorrow, we will all have a thought for the women and men cowardly shot" during the attack on

in January 2015, he added, on the eve of the opening of the trial of the attack which had decimated the editorial staff of the satirical journal.

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Charlie Hebdo republishes the cartoons of Muhammad: "It's great", reacts Philippe Val

"To reproduce these caricatures seemed essential to us"

Five years after the massacre perpetrated within the newspaper's editorial staff,

decided to republish the same cartoons that had made the weekly the target of the jihadists.

"We will never go to bed. We will never give up," explains the director of the satirical weekly, Riss, in the number whose cover includes these cartoons, on newsstands Wednesday and available online Tuesday at noon.

These twelve drawings, published initially by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, then by 

in 2006, showed the prophet carrying a bomb instead of a turban, or as a character armed with a knife flanked by two women veiled in black. 

In addition to these Danish caricatures, the front page of the next Charlie Hebdo, under the title "Tout ça pour ça", also includes a caricature of the prophet signed by his cartoonist Cabu, murdered in the attack of January 7, 2015.