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Demonstration in Nantes, France, in January 2020 in tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks that affected France in 2012. The hundred participants wanted to testify five years after the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Kosher attacks in January 2015 of their attachment to freedom of conscience. , freedom of expression, emancipation, equality of women and men face obscurantism.
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The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is republishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that unleashed a wave of anger in the Muslim world by marking the start of the trial of alleged accomplices in the militant attack against him in 2015.
Among the cartoons, most of which were first published by a Danish newspaper in 2005 and then by Charlie Hebdo a year later, is one of Mohammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse sticking out.
“We will never lie down. We will never give up,” wrote editor Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau in a cover story to be published in print on Wednesday.
Twelve people, including some of the magazine’s best-known cartoonists, were killed when Said and Cherif Kouachi broke into Charlie Hebdo’s Paris offices and sprayed the building with automatic shots.
The Kouachi brothers and a third Islamist gunman who killed five people in the 48 hours after the Charlie Hebdo massacre were shot dead by police in separate clashes, but 14 of their alleged accomplices go to trial on Wednesday.
Some will view the decision to republish the cartoons as a defiant gesture in defense of freedom of expression. But others may see it as yet another provocation from a magazine that has long generated controversy with its satirical attacks on religion.
