Insults, photos of killers armed with Kalashnikovs, private messages full of threats... Press cartoonist Corinne Rey faces harassment on social networks following the publication, in the March 11 issue of
Libération
, of a drawing on Monday evoking the start of Ramadan in the Gaza Strip.
Showing an anthology of these hateful messages, the cartoonist said on X
“perfectly assume”
her drawing.
Her pencil, she explains,
“underlines the despair of the Palestinians”
,
“denounces the famine in Gaza”,
but
“also mocks the absurdity of religion”
.
In the illustration, we see a Palestinian running behind rats, who is stopped in his race by a man dressed in a djellaba reminding him:
“Not before sunset!”
.
A reference to the breaking of the fast practiced by Muslims during the month of Ramadan, which began this Monday in the Gaza Strip, without a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
This drawing sparked many reactions among Internet users.
Some accuse the cartoonist of associating
“Arabs and rats”
and of
“making fun of children starving to death”
.
One of the comments even mentions the Paris attacks, deploring that the designer
“did naughty things”
during the
“Bataclan”
.
On January 7, 2015, Coco, who then worked for Charlie Hebdo, was taken hostage at the newspaper's headquarters by the Kouachi brothers.
At gunpoint, she had to give the killers access to the newspaper's premises, where the terrorists had entered the newsroom and murdered several members of the editorial staff.
The survivor became a cartoonist for Libé in 2021, succeeding the Dutchman Willem.