In a police van, direction the prison: Charlie Hebdo puts God "in his place" on the front page of its issue to appear on Wednesday, the day when the verdict of the trial of the January 2015 attacks, which decimated its editorial staff, will be delivered.
This front page is the work of cartoonist François Boucq, solicited with writer Yannick Haenel by Charlie Hebdo to cover the audiences started more than three months ago.
God put in his place!
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👉 The making of the accounts of the trial of the January 2015
terrorist attacks-God, deliver us from the layperson!
👉 Charlie: the tip of the iceberg
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- Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) December 15, 2020
Last week, the National Counterterrorism Prosecutor's Office called for heavy sentences, from five years in prison to life imprisonment, against the 14 defendants suspected of providing logistical support to the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo editorial attacks, a policewoman of Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher store, and for two of them of "complicity".
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These attacks killed 17 people during three days of terror in January 2015, including 12 on the 7th, creating an electric shock worldwide.
With the verdict, "the cycle of violence, which had opened [...] in the premises of Charlie Hebdo, will have finally closed," writes in his editorial Riss, the editorial director of the satirical weekly, targeted by the jihadists for caricatures of Muhammad, republished last September.
"At least on the penal level because, humanly, the repercussions will never be erased, as the testimonies of the victims who came to speak at the bar showed it", he adds.
Riss: "Passing yourself off as modest thugs"
"The great difficulty" was "to demonstrate the responsibility of the accused.
One should not dream, in this trial as in many others, absolute proof does not exist ", regrets Riss at the end of a trial which was according to him" first of all that of this political terror that we call it Islamism ”.
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"Although all the defendants do not have the same level of ideological implication, we were able to detect that some of them were genuine Islamists, despite their efforts to pass themselves off as modest thugs," he said. -he.
"Finally, the verdict of this trial, it is Charlie's readers who have pronounced it: every week by keeping this newspaper alive and well in their hands, six years after his massacre", proclaims Riss.
"As concluded" Me Richard Malka, the lawyer for Charlie Hebdo, "in his plea, we do not kill an idea.
Especially when it is the most powerful and the most exhilarating of a lifetime: freedom ”.
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