As the 10th anniversary of the Islamist attack that decimated its newsroom approaches, charlie hebdo pays tribute to his “missing” in a moving book, intended for “make terrorists lie” who were delighted, on January 7, 2015, to have “delicate” the newspaper.
Twelve people lost their lives in the attack by the Kouachi brothers on the satirical weekly, the target of jihadist threats since the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006.
Among them, eight members of the editorial team: the designers Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, the economist Bernard Maris and the proofreader Mustapha Ourrad.
Expected on December 5th from the Les Echappés editions, Charlie Liberté, the diary of his life” celebrates his work through a selection of drawings, texts and testimonies on more than 200 pages.
The last ones are also dedicated to the former webmaster of the weekly, Simon Fieschi, seriously injured in 2015 and died in October at the age of 40, a week before the book was printed…
“The idea was to talk about the missing.”of “what they also did before being on charlie” and of “as” They arrived there, Gérard Biard, editor-in-chief of the newspaper, told AFP.
“Free”
For “continue, in some way, keeping them alive and lying to the two terrorists who, after committing their massacre, left the newsroom” shouting “we kill charlie hebdo!”the journalist continues.
“they did not kill charlie hebdoh”which sells 50,000 copies every week, according to Gérard Biard. Regarding the missing, “They are not dead either”his work not having “not aged a bit”argues.
In addition to his creations for the corrosive humor weekly, Maurice and Patapon, Charb’s anti-capitalist dogs and cats, in the section “charlie divan” by Elsa Cayat -, the book reviews the first sketches of Cabu, winner of a competition for a pen brand at the age of 19, Honoré’s fascination with animals and Mustapha Ourrad’s love for the French language…
It is about giving the reader the”I want to be free like them.”explains Riss, the director of Charliein the introduction of the book.
“we don’t charlie hebdo by chance”underlines Gérard Biard, recalling that François Cavanna and Professor Choron founded it in 1970 to “write and read there what they could not read elsewhere” and evade the censorship of the Gaullist power directed at his magazine Hara Kiri.
charlie liberty It thus inaugurates the commemorations of the ten years since the January 2015 attacks against the newspaper, a Montrouge police officer and the Hyper Cacher, which left 17 dead.
Special issue
The weekly will also publish in January a special 32-page issue that will include the best drawings from the #RiredeDieu international cartoon contest that was held until mid-December to denounce “the influence of all religions” about freedoms.
You will also remember the agitation around the caricatures of Muhammad, the origin of violent demonstrations in Muslim countries, initially published in 2005 by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and taken up by the weekly in 2006.
charlie hebdo had republished these drawings in 2020, “evidence” on the eve of the opening of the trial for the January 2015 attacks, as well as the cover designed in 2006 by Cabu, “deliberately misunderstood” by his detractors, according to Gérard Biard.
This cover, in which Muhammad “overwhelmed by fundamentalists” judge that “It’s hard to be loved by idiots.”appears in charlie liberty. In 2015, a week after the murder, the newspaper showed the prophet holding a sign. “I am Charlie”under the title everything is forgiven.
Has Charlie self-censored since then? “We never made a drawing simply because it entertained us (…) Today, to criticize, to talk about what the Islamist ideology is, it is no longer necessary to draw Muhammad. Everyone understood that Muhammad was a pretext.” for terrorists, says Gérard Biard.
Source: BFM TV
