They didn’t kill Charlie Hebdo. The cry uttered by Saïd and Chérif Kouachi as they left the scene of their killing, on the morning of January 7, 2015, turned out to be false. The attacks on the newspaper, in Montrouge and at Hyper Cacher killed 17 people, including 8 members of the editorial staff. But “They did not kill this satirical periodical”, says ten years later the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. “It’s been around for fifty-five years.” And, hailed by numerous headlines in the international press at the beginning of January 2025, it will continue.
A decade after the trauma, the weekly commemorates the victims. “With moral strength, courage and resilience that do him credit,” écrit The Vanguard in Barcelona. The Islamist attack made the newspaper a “global symbol of freedom of expression”, add The Free in Belgium. Thus, today, Gérard Biard, editor-in-chief since 2004, is interviewed by numerous foreign titles.
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Time Switzerland, for example, seeks to “grasp the magnitude” of what the newspaper’s cartoonists left behind. Cabu, Charb, Wolinski, Honoré, Tignous…: “monsters of press cartoons”. “Their legacy has been somewhat obliterated by the historical dimension of the circumstances of their death.” More help
