During his argument, Richard Malka, lawyer for Charlie Hebdo, delivered a speech for “the freedom to piss off God”, the caricature of religions and the defense of republican values.
On leaving the courtroom, Richard Malka loses his temper against those who, according to him, have allowed "obscurantism to win".
Charlie Hebdo's lawyer closed the litany of pleadings of the civil parties at the trial of the January 2015 attacks. "This caricature story is a pretext," he explains. "The problem is what we do. are, we are the Other, with another universalism of reason and freedom and they do not support it ”.
The one who wrote the articles of the newspaper during his resurrection in 1992 sees here a political trial of “republican values shaken” in the name of an Islamist ideology that he criticizes.
"It's up to us to shout, to sing, to howl to cover with the blood of our voices the hideous blood of the knives under our throats", he launched before recalling that, during the duration of this hearing, "a teacher has been cut in half ”.
Paradoxically, these losses made Charlie invincible, notes Richard Malka.
"You have made a symbol of it, an idea," he says to the terrorists.
They can kill us, but they cannot kill an idea.
His last words finally filled with hope: "Charlie will live."
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