Charlie Hebdo newspaper reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad

ParisThe French comic book “Charlie Hebdo” announced on Tuesday that it had republished the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, making it vulnerable to the terrorist attack that left 12 dead by its editorial board in January 2015.

“We will never receive it,” wrote the editor of the weekly Laurent “Reyes” Sorriso, justifying the decision to publish the cartoons on the cover of the new issue, which will be distributed on newsstands on Wednesday and can be found on the Internet on Tuesday at 10: 00 GMT, hours before the trial of the deceased jihadist accomplices. On the editorial board on January 7, 2015.

These twelve cartoons, published first by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, and then by Charlie Hebdo in 2006, show the Prophet wearing a bomb instead of a turban, or as a figure armed with a knife surrounded by two veiled women.

The weekly was threatened several times after that, as the headquarters of its editorial board was set on fire until the terrorist attack took place on January 7, during which several members of its staff were killed, causing a commotion. global and mass demonstrations in France.

In addition to these Danish cartoons, the cover of Charlie Hebdo also featured the headline “All for this,” a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad written by cartoonist Cabo, who was killed in the January 7, 2015 attack.

In an article published in the same issue, the editorial board stated: “Since January 2015, we have often been asked to publish other cartoons of Muhammad. But we refused to do it, not because it is prohibited, as the law allows us, but because we need a good reason to do it, a reason that has a meaning. And add something to the debate. “

“This week, which marks the beginning of the trial of the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in January 2015, it seems necessary to us,” added Charlie Hebdo’s team.