(ANSA) - COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER 30 - The New Right party of extreme dextradanism today announced the launch of a campaign to republish the cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad that the French teacher Samuel Paty showed to his students before being brutally killed.
"The killing of Samuel Paty triggered the campaign, we want to show our support for his family and free speech," Pernille Vermund, leader of The New Right, the anti-immigration party holds four of the 179 seats in parliament, told AFP. Danish.
On its website, the party has launched a fundraiser to "publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons in Danish newspapers."
In Danish media circles, the initiative was met with mixed responses.
Poul Madsen, director of the Extrabladet block, said he reserves the right to decide on the vignettes only after seeing them and "not before".
"We condemn Muslim terrorism and 100% support France, the murdered and free speech, but always with a focus on our employees and those who are particularly vulnerable," Madsen wrote on Twitter.
Vermund said she was "not at all sure that it will be possible" to publish the cartoons.
"But as a politician - he argued - my obligation is that the progress of society should aim at greater freedom of speech, not at diminishing it".
The cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005, causing widespread protests and anger among many Muslim communities.
The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, like other European newspapers, then republished them in 2006 in the name of the defense of free speech.
In 2015, the newspaper was the target of a jihadist attack that killed 12 people, including journalists and cartoonists.
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