Charlie Hebdo: two journalists suspended from Instagram after publishing Muhammad cartoons

Two Instagram accounts of

journalists

, who had posted the weekly front page with the reproduction of the Muhammad cartoons, were temporarily deactivated on Sunday.

"These accounts were deleted by mistake. We reinstated them as soon as we became aware of them, and we apologized," said Mélanie Agazzome, Instagram communications director for France and Southern Europe.

"Massive reports"

It only takes one report for an account to be deactivated, and those accounts have been reported.

Charlie Hebdo's Instagram account "has not been closed, has not been subject to any censorship, and some members have shared the cartoons," added Mélanie Agazzome.

Cartoonist Coco and journalist Laure Dassy complained on Twitter that their Instagram accounts had been deactivated after they rebroadcast the cover of their newspaper, which had reproduced the Muhammad caricatures published in 2006 on Wednesday.

"The right to blasphemy cannot be diminished", recalls Bachelot

“Everything is back on track. It is possible that massive coverage reports caused Instagram accounts to be suspended automatically,” Coco tweeted in the middle of the day.

"The right to blasphemy cannot be lessened", recalled Sunday the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot, interviewed in the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI "." The right to blasphemy is a right in the secular French Republic: we we must fight to ensure that it is respected, ”she insisted, as the trial of the January 2015 attacks opened on Wednesday, which notably hit the satirical newspaper.

Titled "All that for that", the issue of Charlie appeared on Wednesday, in which the cartoons of Muhammad, which had made him a target of Islamist terrorism in 2015, were republished, sold 200,000 copies on day one and 200,000 other copies went on sale Saturday.