Paris (AFP)

After the assassination of a professor who had shown caricatures of Muhammad initially published by Charlie Hebdo, the weekly made its front page on "the decapitated republic" with a drawing showing severed heads representing various professions.

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?"

"The freedoms to teach, to express themselves, to discuss and to question each other build, word after word, our common language, the basis of any democracy. There is no doubt today that through their victims c t is the whole democracy that these assassins want to behead, "writes Riss in his editorial.

"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 has the solution, we turn to politics as if politicians have the solution (...) and in the end we turn to the teachers as if the teachers had the solution, "he continues.

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