Ceremonies will be organized on Tuesday in Paris in tribute to the 12 victims of the jihadist attack on the premises of the French satirical weekly which occurred on January 7, 2015.
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The attack which killed 12 people in the premises of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, including eight members of the editorial staff, was a real international shock.
Whilea special issue will be published Tuesday, ten years to the day after the attackthe weekly affirms that “the desire to laugh will never disappear”
“Satire has a virtue that has helped us get through these tragic years: optimism. If we want to laugh, it’s because we want to live. Laughter, irony, caricature are manifestations of optimism”declares Riss, the director of Charlie Hebdo.
“Today, the values of Charlie Hebdo, such as humor, satire, freedom of expression, ecology, secularism, feminism to name but a few, have never been so challenged. cause”he adds.
This anniversary issue is placed under the theme “God’s laughter”, Charlie Hebdo having launched an international competition at the end of 2024 inviting press cartoonists to illustrate their “anger against the influence of all religions on their freedoms”.
The weekly’s management claims to have received some 350 drawings, 40 of which were selected to appear in Tuesday’s issue.
A wave of international support after the attack
The Charlie Hebdo attack caused great emotion in France and many other Western countries, and gave rise to a support movement brought together under the slogan “Je suis Charlie”.
Messages and initiatives of support multiplied after the attack, many artists calling for the defense of freedom of expression.
Among them, the dancer and choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier launched the project “One minute of dancing a day“, which she conceives as a “act of poetic resistance”.
“I’ve been dancing one minute a day for ten years”declares the Franco-Canadian artist.
While Nadia Vadori-Gauthier plans to put an end to this initiative on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the attack, excerpts from some of her 3,643 daily dances will be presented Tuesday during a ceremony honoring the victims.
This event will be part of the national commemorations which will be organized Tuesday in Paris, in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron and several heads of state.
Trial of the person responsible for the September 2020 attack
The anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack coincides with the start of the trial of a Pakistani national who seriously injured two people with a chopper in September 2020 in front of the former premises of the newspaper, unaware that the editorial staff of the weekly had left the premises.
The assailant appeared for terrorist assassination attempts and criminal terrorist association. Five people, all of Pakistani origin and three of whom were minors at the time of the events, will also be tried for complicity.
This attack followed the republication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by Charlie Hebdo, the same ones which had earned the newspaper jihadist threats in 2006.
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