Ten years after the Islamist attack which struck it, Charlie Hebdo is releasing a special issue on Tuesday January 7, on the precise date of an anniversary which is also the subject of numerous tributes, with special broadcasts and a string of Books. In this special 32-page issue, the satirical weekly will publish caricatures selected during an international competition launched until mid-December. Called “#RireDeDieu”, its aim is to denounce “the influence of all religions” on society, according to Charlie. The editorial team will also give the results of a survey on the question: is France still Charlie? Twelve people lost their lives on January 7, 2015 in the attack by the Kouachi brothers on the weekly, the target of jihadist threats since the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006. Other Islamist attacks cost the life of a policewoman the next day in Montrouge and four people of Jewish faith in a kosher grocery store at Porte de Vincennes on January 9.
Books for memory
In December, Charlie Hebdo already released the book “Charlie Liberté, the diary of their life” published by Les Echappés, to celebrate the work of the eight members of the editorial team who were cut down on January 7: the cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, the economist Bernard Maris and the proofreader Mustapha Ourrad.
Furthermore, several books participate in this commemoration in their own way. Thus the association “Cartooning for peace” joined forces with Gallimard to publish “Tenir la ligne, 40 drawings for Charlie”, in the Tracts collection. In the form of a pamphlet, the journalist Daniel Schneidermann deplores in “Le Charlisme” (at Le Seuil from January 10) the disappearance of the original Charlie spirit. Finally, the Cherche Midi editions are reissuing “Toujours aussi idiots!” by Cabu and “Fou d’amour” by Wolinski.
Special broadcasts
The public group France Télévisions gets into tune on Tuesday. From 10:50 a.m., France 2 will offer a special live broadcast to follow the commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Then the channel will program an exceptional evening around the questions “Are we all still Charlie? Where are we with freedom of expression?”. Live from the National Library of France in Paris, host Caroline Roux will receive Charlie’s journalists and cartoonists, including Riss. Other guests, “specialists in terrorism, to decipher the state of the threat today”, “teachers and students” on the question of secularism, and “comedians, artists, writers” who “s “will question freedom of expression,” the channel said. Other broadcasts related to the event will also be available on the france.tv platform. Franceinfo is planning a special day on Tuesday, with testimonies from actors and personalities, as well as new reports and debates on freedom of expression or secularism.
For its part, TF1 is planning reports in its news from this weekend, and LCI will broadcast an in-house documentary from Friday at 9 p.m., “Charlie Hebdo: they tell the horror”. On TMC and the TF1+ platform, Julien Bellver’s “21h media” show will focus Monday evening on these attacks of January 2015, “The Horror in France”. Also on Monday, M6 will broaden the perspective to other attacks of that year, notably that of the Bataclan, with “Ce qui nous binds”, a documentary broadcast during an evening presented by Thomas Sotto. The INA (National Audiovisual Institute) will also offer several formats linked to this anniversary and based on period archives, on its social networks, its website and its Madelen streaming platform.
