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Death threats against the head of personnel at "Charlie Hebdo"

2020-09-22T12:46:59.811Z


The personnel manager of "Charlie Hebdo" has been taken to a safe place after death threats. The satirical magazine had reprinted the Mohammed cartoons after which the attack in 2015.


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Marika Bret, Human Resources Manager at "Charlie Hebdo"

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Marika Bret, head of human resources for the French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo", had to leave her home following death threats.

She was taken to safety by the police.

"I had ten minutes to pack and leave home," she said in the latest issue of the weekly Le Point.

That was "very violent".

But the threats received last week were concrete enough to be taken seriously, said Bret.

The trial of 14 alleged helpers of the two assassins who killed twelve people in an attack on the editorial staff of "Charlie Hebdo" in January 2015, including some of the most famous cartoonists in France, has been on trial since the beginning of September.

The assassins justified their act with the caricatures.

The drawings show, among other things, the prophet Mohammed with a bomb on his head instead of a turban.

At the beginning of the trial (read more here), the satirical newspaper reprinted the Mohammed cartoons, which made it a target of the Islamists.

There were protests in Pakistan, Iran and other Islamic countries.

According to experts, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda also threatened another attack.

Bret spoke of an "overwhelming hatred for 'Charlie Hebdo'".

The fact that she now had to leave her home in a hurry shows the "unprecedented pressure" the employees of the magazine are exposed to.

She will not return to her old apartment.

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Source: spiegel

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