An investigation was opened after the damage, during the night from Thursday to Friday, of the front pages of Charlie Hebdo, hung by a restaurateur on the walls of his establishment in Grenoble, CNEWS has learned.
“The Charlie spirit” targeted. On the night of Thursday January 9 to Friday January 10, front pages of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, framed and hung on the walls of a Grenoble restaurant, were torn down, CNEWS learned. Two of them were vandalized and broken, while two others were left on the ground.
This is not the first time that the owner of the establishment, Pierre Pavy, has received threats. While he has exhibited posters there since 2006, his restaurant had been the target of hateful messages of an Islamic nature and a molotov cocktail thrown on his terrace in 2011, causing 10,000 euros in damage, explains Dauphiné Libéré.
An investigation opened by the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office
“We have thirty to forty Charlie Hebdo front page posters inside our restaurants. And we wanted, with the leader, to put four outside this week,” to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attack against the satirical newspaper, he explained to our colleagues.
“We are not attacking anyone in particular but we live in a secular country where the right to blasphemy exists. A country where we can make fun of the great and the gods,” continued the restaurateur.
The Grenoble public prosecutor’s office told CNEWS that it had opened an investigation this Saturday into theft and damage committed due to religion. The perpetrators of this act risk six years of imprisonment.
