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Issues special edition now that the trial of the murderers begins.
Street art in Paris by Christian Guemy that pays tribute to the victims of the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. This week the trial against those responsible began.
This is a cultural article. Analysis and values are the author’s.
“C’est distribui” – “Then it was time again.” This is what it says in the race to number 1179 of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was published on Wednesday. In Luz’s drawing, a dog squats with the magazine in its mouth, pursued by a heterogeneous mass of the Pope and Marine le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy and a jihadist. All on a scarlet background.
So what is it for? Well, for a reissue of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in the Danish Jyllandsposten in 2005, then in Charlie Hebdo in 2006, and which were the basis of the terrorist attack that affected the newspaper’s newsroom on January 7 of 2015 where twelve people died.
Time for judgment against the defendants of the event of January 7, 8 and 9, 2015, against Charlie Hebdo and the kosher Hyper Kacher case. The test will last two and a half months.
Charge Charlie, as the trial is called in the media.
“Tout ça pour ça” – “All that for this” is written on the cover of the new issue, a so-called “special process”. It’s hard not to interpret both sadness and disappointment in these words.
Here, the Danish cartoons coexist with their own cartoonist Cabuts (one of those killed), who represents Muhammad keeping his face in power. Caption: “Muhammad is collapsing because of the fundamentalists,” it says. Och sen: “It’s hard to be loved by scammers.” It’s hard to be loved by idiots.
Courage or provocationHe asks the France Culture radio channel about the reissue of the drawings.
Charlie Hebdo has conducted a statistical survey on the views of French citizens on freedom of expression today and 15 years ago, based on both age and religious affiliation. The newspaper believes that the French do not consider freedom of expression as sacred now as they did then, especially in the 15-25 age range. A problem for the educational system, says the newspaper.
The publishers also write that they have been asked countless times since the murder to publish new drawings of Muhammad, “but we felt a good reason was needed to do so.”
Therefore, the Muhammad cartoons have not been shown in fourteen years, but, as the number says, “these drawings belong to history and we will not escape history.” Today, images constitute a “pièce de conviction”, that is to say, proof and it is a “duty to inform” more than anything else.
In his editorial, Philippe Lançon describes the trial now initiated as “a necessary, symbolic and social ceremony. And also, for some of us, a comforting ritual.” With the addition: “A bad consolation.” Because the damage has already been done.
Charlie Hebdo Men Charlie Hebdo wouldn’t do it if they didn’t take down dissenters and naysayers in every field, not even with crude illustrations. From the author Virginie Despentes to the Pope, with a bit of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the controversial Muslim theologian and polemicist Tariq Ramadan in between. Both those who believe that Charlie Hebdo has contributed to increasing Islamophobia and racism in French society, as well as those who are Islamophobes and racists.
Here are texts in memory of deceased employees. Here are texts on terrorism and voluntary stupidity according to Primo Lévi. But also about what is called “fatwor” of the left and cancel crop, as well as different versions of anti-Semitism in today’s society.
Angry, unpleasant, sad, or blasphemous. You have to look for a more explosive number.
