The French satirical magazine has once again come under fire for its provocative comic strips. The drawing by artist Pierrick Juin showed teetering buildings amid heaps of rubble with the caption: “No need to send tanks.” Social media users said the cartoon mocked the tragedy that impacted millions of people across two countries and called the drawing “disgusting”, “shameful”, “revolting” …
The irreverent and militantly atheist publication operates today with round-the-clock police protection and from a secret location, seven years after it was attacked by Islamist gunmen. "There is nothing to regret," Charlie Hebdo's director Laurent Sourisseau, known as "Riss", told a French court in 2020 during a trial of accomplices to the 2015 gunmen. The murders sparked a global outpouring …
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The Charlie Hebdo caricaturist has recalled the horrifying moment she was was forced at gunpoint to open the satirical newspaper office's doors to two Al-Qaeda extremists during attacks in 2015. Key points: Seventeen people were killed in the January 2015 attacks, 12 in and around the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo Caricaturist Corinne Rey was forced to let the …
Given the falling readership of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, France seems much less keen to embrace biting satirical humour than it initially appeared back in 2015. By Jonathan Ervine After the terror attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January, 2015 left 12 people dead, many declared “Je suis Charlie” in solidarity. People who …
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