Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper, released a special edition commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 2015 attack on its offices. The edition features a cartoon proclaiming 'Indestructible!' and a caricature contest mocking God and religious leaders.
The team behind the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper pose during a photo session in Paris in March 2024. © Joel Saget, AFP : French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo unveiled a special edition Monday to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by Islamist gunmen that decimated its staff.
The front-page features a cartoon celebrating the atheist paper’s existence with the caption “Indestructible!”, while four inside pages show the results of a caricature contest to mock God and religious leaders. “Satire has a virtue that has enabled us to get through these tragic years: optimism,“ said an editorial from director Riss, who survived the January 7, 2015, massacre that left 12 people, including eight editorial staff, dead. “If you want to laugh, it means you want to live. Laughing, irony, and caricatures are manifestations of optimism. Whatever happens, dramatic or happy, the desire to laugh will never cease.” The 2015 attack by two Paris-born brothers of Algerian descent was said to be revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s decision to publish caricatures lampooning the Prophet Mohammed, Islam’s most revered figure. The massacre of some of France’s most famous cartoonists signalled the start of a gruesome series of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State plots that claimed hundreds of lives in France and western Europe over the following years. The edition unveiled to the media on Monday will go on sale on Tuesday when public commemorations by President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo are set to take place. The weekly had called on cartoonists to submit their “funniest and meanest” depictions of God in a typically provocative and defiant contest for the special anniversary edition. “Yes, we can laugh about God, especially if he exists,“ said a headline over what the paper said were the best 40 out of more than 350 entrie
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