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The trial started on Wednesday
Charlie Hebdo magazine reprinted cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad, deemed offensive to Muslims, and exposed them to an attack by extremist militants in 2015.
The reissue of the drawings comes a day after the trial of 14 people accused of aiding militants in the January 7, 2015 attack began.
Twelve people died in and around the magazine’s headquarters, including famous painters. Another 5 people were killed in a subsequent attack in Paris.
The attack inaugurated a series of bloody operations carried out by extremist militants in France.
The magazine published 12 pictures on the cover of Prophet Muhammad, which was a Danish newspaper that had previously published it. One of the drawings shows Prophet Muhammad with a bomb on his head instead of a turban, and the magazine titled its subject with the phrase: “All this is for this.”
In its editorial, the newspaper says it has received repeated requests to continue publishing drawings about the courier since the 2015 attack.
He added: “We refuse to do this, not because it is prohibited, as the law allows us to post, but because we were waiting for a valid reason that makes sense and provides material for discussion. We find it appropriate to republish the drawings in the week in that began the trial of the accused in the attack. ”
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The Jewish store, which was attacked again
What will happen at the trial?
Fourteen people are charged in the case of providing material aid and weapons to the group that attacked the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish and police store in Paris.
Three of them are being tried in absentia, as they are believed to have fled to northern Syria and Iraq.
Radio France Internationale stated that the number of plaintiffs in the case reached 200, and several survivors of the attack also attended the trial to testify.
The trial was scheduled for last March, but was postponed due to the spread of the Corona virus. It is expected to last until November.
What happened in 2015?
On January 5, brothers Saeed and Sherif Kouachi broke into Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters and shot and killed Stefan Charbonnier, also known as Sharp, and four painters, including Capo, editorial writers, a proofreader, and a guest who attended. to the meeting.
The bodyguard at the post and a police officer were also killed in the attack.
While the police were chasing the two Kouachi brothers, who were later killed, another gunman named Ahmadi Coulibaly, who was an acquaintance of the Kouachi brothers, broke into a Jewish shop in Paris and killed 9 people before the police killed him. shot.
Coulibaly announced in a video that the attack was carried out on behalf of ISIS.
Why target Charlie Hebdo?
Charlie Hebdo has been stirring controversy for his cynical style of politicians and aspects of Catholicism, Judaism and Islam.
However, it was her publication of the drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad that exposed her to the death threat and prompted the militants to carry out the 2015 attack.
Sharp vigorously defended the publication of the drawings, citing freedom of expression. In a statement to the Associated Press in 2012, he said: “I do not blame Muslims for not laughing when they see the pictures, but I live under French law, not under Quran law.”
After the attack, thousands of people marched in solidarity with the magazine, raising the slogan “I am Charlie” and the hashtag “I am Charlie” has spread on social networking sites around the world. ”
Editor-in-chief Gérard Pierre told the BBC in 2016: “The magazine’s emergence as an international symbol of freedom of expression also brought some criticism for its provocative and controversial style, with many demanding that the beliefs of others”.
