In Pontoise, in Val-d’Oise, on January 16, 2015, hundreds of people came to pay their last respects to Charb. Nine days earlier, the cartoonist was shot dead in the small editorial office of Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, alongside 11 companions in misfortune, all of whom fell under the Kalashnikov bullets of the Kouachi brothers.
After the astonishment, it is time for sadness and contemplation. This January 16, in thick silence, Jean-Luc Mélenchon delivers his friend’s funeral oration in a distressed voice. “Charb, you were assassinated by our oldest, our cruelest, our most constant, our most narrow-minded enemies, the religious fanatics, bloody cretins, who vociferate of all time”he says in front of the coffin. The tribune also cites the “secularism ridiculed” and the “mocked secularists” that Charb defended. “Thank you comrade”he cries.
On January 11, Jean-Luc Mélenchon participated in the great Republican march, alongside the entire French political world, a host of foreign heads of state, adding his grief to that expressed by the tide of anonymous people. took to the streets, in support of Charlie. Some reluctance had been well expressed in the interstices of the intellectual left, but it had gone unnoticed. The time has now come for national unity and republican communion.
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