Charlie Hebdo persists and signs. Despite the controversies surrounding its caricatures on the Mazan rape trial published in recent weeks, the satirical newspaper assures, in a mood post published on its website this December 5, that it will continue to draw “again and again Gisèle Pelicot and the deviants who abused her” in its pages.
“It is not Charlie who is violent by crudely showing the rapes of which Gisèle Pelicot was the victim. It’s rape, violence,” can we read in this article signed Jean-Loup Adénor, deputy editor-in-chief of Charlie. And to denounce: “That a man could have used his wife as the inert receptacle of his deviances, there it is, the violence. That there are so many men, a crowd of little committed attackers, ordinary in horror, horribly ordinary – there it is, the violence. »
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“Indignant professionals”
The journalist returns to the three drawings that caused an outcry. One of these represents, for example, Gisèle Pelicot lying on a bed in front of a line of naked men and her husband Dominique. All of this, punctuated by the title “L’amour ouf”, in reference to the successful film by Gilles Lellouche – with Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil.
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“What’s the message?” »an Internet user then asked about X, outraged, like many other users of the social network, by this drawing “to vomit”. Even elected officials did not fail to react, notably the La France insoumise MP for the 16th district of Paris, Sarah Legrain: “You must have fallen really low to only rely on vile drawings to exist. » But according to Jean-Loup Adénor, the objective of such drawings is quite the opposite: “to show, to make exist, to make react. »
“This is exactly what Gisèle Pelicot wanted, by authorizing the publicity of the debates. She understood that by showing all this horror in its triviality, public opinion could only react. In this sense, Felix [un dessinateur incriminé, NDLR] perfectly respects the victim's intention”, develops the deputy editor-in-chief of Charlie, believing that his diary remains “in his role”.
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Before criticizing in turn: “It is up to the small prosecutors, the indignant professionals and the outraged on duty to respect it too. It's up to them to activate their meager brains to try to understand the importance of the images when they show, precisely, all the violence of the crimes committed. »
