Paris (AFP)
Press cartoonist Xavier Gorce announced on Wednesday that he would no longer work for Le Monde, judging that "freedom cannot be negotiated", after the daily called the publication of one of his drawings an "error". the subject of incest, which had shocked many Internet users.
"I am announcing that I immediately decide to stop working for the World. Personal, one-sided and final decision. Freedom cannot be negotiated. My drawings will continue. Other announcements to follow," the cartoonist said on Twitter. "indégivables", who worked for a long time with the newspaper.
The management of Le Monde apologized on Tuesday for one of his drawings circulated in a newsletter, which had aroused many reactions on social networks, acknowledging that it had been shocking and assuring that it should "not have been published ".
This drawing showed a young penguin asking a fellow creature: "if I have been abused by the adopted half-brother of the partner of my transgender father who has become my mother, is it incest?"
Some social media users saw it as a form of transphobia and criticized the designer for making fun of incest victims, criticism he rejected outright on Twitter.
"This drawing can indeed be read as a relativization of the seriousness of the acts of incest, in inappropriate terms vis-à-vis victims and transgender people", for her part, underlined the director of Le Monde, Caroline Monnot, in a message published on the daily's website.
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