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“All this, for this,” reads the headline on the cover of the new issue of Charlie Hebdo.
It shows a dozen cartoons that were published in the Danish Jyllands-Posten in 2005, and republished by the French satirical magazine in 2006.
As in Denmark, a heated debate broke out in France over whether the cartoons were racist, Islamophobic and intended to hurt an already vulnerable minority, or whether it was a reasonable operation with one of the world’s major religions. Protests broke out in the Arab world, where it is considered a sin to portray the Prophet.
A French court that tried the publications concluded that they were protected by freedom of expression. But the protests continued, and when Charlie Hebdo published new satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad (hysterically funny or vulgarly disgusting, depending on the viewer), pro-violence Islamists began to see the newspaper as a major target.
On January 7, 2015, two masked men broke into the editorial office in Paris and fired automatic weapons at cartoonists and other staff members. Eleven people died and as many were shot. When leaving the building, one of the terrorists also executed a wounded policeman. The perpetrator shouted: “We have avenged the prophet.”
Flores at the place where police officer Ahmed Merabet was shot and killed. The photo is from 2015.
Photo: Christine Bertrand Nielsen / AFP
Behind the masks were two brothers: Saïd and Chérif Kouachi. The brothers fled the scene and two days passed before the police caught up with them on the outskirts of Paris. Meanwhile, another man, Amedy Coulibaly, took hostages in a Jewish shop in eastern Paris.
The day before, Coulibaly had shot and killed police Clarissa Jean-Philippe near a Jewish school. Now she murdered four more people in the store, before both she and the Kouachi brothers were shot and killed by the police.
In the trial that begins on Wednesday 14 people are brought to justice for their participation in the event. These are friends, relatives and other relatives of the terrorists, who are suspected of being aware of their plans or actively assisting them.
– These are people who are involved in logistics, the preparation of events, who provided funds, weapons, a house, says terrorist prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard.
Two people pass the address where Charlie Hebdo previously had his editorial office and where eleven people were killed and as many were shot. As he left the building, he also executed a policeman.
Photo: Thomas Coex / AFP
The al-Qaeda terror network claimed responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo, while the Islamic State (IS) claimed to have been behind the attack on the Jewish store. However, everything indicates that the attacks were coordinated. Among other things, one of the Kouachi brothers is said to have texted Amedy Coulibali just before the attack on the satirical newspaper.
One of the cartoonists who shot To death in the attack was Jean “Cabu” Cabut. He was featured on the cover of the controversial 2006 issue. It features a cartoon prophet who keeps his eyes open and complains that “idiots love it.”
That the magazine is republishing this and other satirical cartoons of the prophet Mohamed, explains editor Riss with: “We will never sleep. We never give up “.
