President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute this Saturday to the victims, eight years ago, of the Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge and Hyper Cacher attacks, recalling the names of the 17 victims on Twitter and promising to “never” forget them.
“Cabu, Wolinski, Charb, Tignous, Honoré, Bernard Maris, Elsa Cayat, Frédéric Boisseau, Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet, Mustapha Ourrad, Michel Renaud, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, François-Michel Saada : we will never forget you,” the president wrote.
Also on Twitter, the head of government Elisabeth Borne also paid tribute to the victims. “In the face of Islamist terrorism, the Republic remains firm. For their families, for our values, for our freedom: let’s not forget it,” she wrote.
Ceremony in front of the old premises
A ceremony took place in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in the presence in particular of the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the Mayor of Paris. Ana Hidalgo.
Eight years later, the French satirical newspaper found itself at the center of a diplomatic crisis this week following the publication of cartoons about the Iranian regime deemed insulting by Tehran.
Iran announced on Thursday the closure of the country’s oldest and most important French think tank, the French Institute for Research in Iran (IFRI), affiliated with the French Foreign Ministry.
Source: BFM TV
