COURRIER INTERNATIONAL: How did you experience the attacks in Charlie Hebdo January 7, 2015? Where were you?
ASH MUNCK : I was in Denmark, I was shaving while listening to France Info when I learned that gunshots had been heard at the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo. I immediately went to the airport to return to France in the afternoon. There, I worked for Danish television which wanted to cover these events. Since the affair of the Mohammed caricatures in the newspaper Jutland Posten of 2005, the Danish public is very concerned about these issues.
I was also able to go to the demonstrations on January 10 and 11 at Place de la République. It was very emotional for me because I worked for the Jutland PostenI covered the Charlie Hebdo trial in 2007 in Paris where I was able to speak with the cartoonists Charb and Tignous, with the lawyer Richard Malka. It was one of the most important moments of my career, I was able to grasp the full extent of satire and caricature in French and Danish societies. We suspected that this was not the end point of history, but it was nevertheless already the culmination of a democratic struggle where religious fundamentalism hindered freedom of expression, the freedom to laugh at everything and anything.
Ten years later, what do you think of this attack? A-t-
