Trial of the January 2015 attacks: "Charlie Hebdo" republishes the cartoons of Muhammad
A mural by French artist Christian Guemy, known as C215, in tribute to members of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper who were killed by jihadist gunmen in January 2015, rue Nicolas Appert in Paris.
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Charlie Hebdo republishes the cartoons of Muhammad who had made him the target of jihadists.
The cartoons originally published by a Danish daily, as well as an old cover of Charlie signed Cabu, appear in the issue which will be released on newsstands this Wednesday, September 2, 2020, even as the trial of the January 2015 attacks opens. before the Assize Court of Paris.
Attacks that had killed 17 people, including 12 in the premises of Charlie Hebdo.
The satirical newspaper wanted to justify this choice.
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13 caricatures of Muhammad and roughly in yellow: “All that for that”.
With this One,
Charlie Hebdo
intends to recall how it all began, with drawings, "
just drawings
", underlines on Twitter the designer Coco, survivor of the
attack.
“
We'll never go to bed.
We will never give up in the face of obscurantism and religious fanaticism.
This is what Riss, the director of
Charlie Hebdo
, writes
.
The satirical weekly once again affirms its convictions bluntly.
But with this One, he also intends to inform the public, and especially young people.
These cartoons are “
exhibits
”.
They have "
historical
" and "
criminal
" value, writes the weekly editorial staff, which explains that it is their publication "
considered blasphemy by a certain number of Muslims which constitutes the motive for the massacre of January 7
".
A stand in favor of freedom of expression
Several former members of the newspaper, but also intellectuals and politicians, welcomed this stance in favor of freedom of expression.
Faced with criticism that has also appeared on social networks, the French Council for Muslim Worship calls for ignoring these cartoons and keeping the victims of terrorism in mind.
"
Nothing can justify violence,
" insists its president.
Their publication in 2005 in a Danish newspaper had provoked violent demonstrations in several Muslim countries.
Then taken up by
Charlie Hebdo
, which had earned him criticism at the time, they had helped put the weekly in the crosshairs of the jihadists.
Since the attacks, these drawings had never been republished, for lack of an opportune moment, further specify
Charlie's
journalists
.
For them, doing it on the occasion of the opening of the trial, in a special issue, was "
essential
".
Special issue: All for that.
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