5 years ago, a cartoon triggered a terrorist attack that shocked the world.
That year, the successive terrorist attacks made people restless.
htmlOn September 2, 2005, the Special Felony Court of Paris opened. Thirteen men and one woman became accused because of helping the militants of the Charlie Hebrew terrorist attack; seriously injured survivor Philip Lansong is still trying to get out of the shadow of the terrorist attack; and Charlie Hebrew, which "farewell to" the prophet comics because of the terrorist attack, has now decided to republish those comics that caused it to cause trouble...Is everything really "forgived"?
In January 2015, people took to the streets to mourn the cartoonist and editor who was attacked and killed in the office of Charlie Hebrew.
Let everything go
2015 is perhaps one of the worst chapters in modern French history.
htmlOn January 7, a French-born Algerian brother shot wildly in the office of the satirical cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 cartoonists and editors. Outside the house, a gunman also shot and killed a policeman. On the way to escape, terrorists hijacked a Jewish supermarket and four hostages were killed.After that killing, there were another series of completed or attempted terrorist attacks in France. On November 13, ISIS militants launched suicide bomb attacks near the French Stadium where the French-German football friendly match was being held, and fired at the crowd at the Bataklan concert hall in Paris. France entered a year-long state of emergency after at least 130 people died in multiple attacks on that horrifying night.
The Charlie Hebrew terrorist attack was held in court
From this week to the next two months, the French will revisit the bad 2015 Charlie Hebrew terrorist attack. The main culprit has been shot dead, and the court will hear testimony from 150 witnesses and videotape the entire process for 14 accomplices aged 29 to 68, who are providing funds, weapons or vehicles to terrorists. These accomplices may face up to 20 years in prison.
"From the perspective of collective memory, people need a trial to confirm that this series of things are over, and it's over," said sociologist Jerome Truck.
The pain of hard-to-heal
However, will everything pass?
The instant posts left by Maris' husband
In Mary's home, on the walls and on the shelves are photos of her and her husband, and there are instant posts left by her husband everywhere, which read "Good night, my lover. G." "Love you, Maris, you are my only lover. G."...
In this house where husbands are everywhere, Maris has lived alone for a full 5 years. In the catastrophe in January 2015, the husband, cartoonist Georges Warlinks, who had been with him for 47 years, was unfortunately killed. "My life was overturned. I suffered from cancer and had nightmares every night. In my dreams, I often became my husband, facing a submachine gun, repeating the moment of his life."
Maryce was one of the plaintiffs in the trial that began on the 2nd. She hopes the trial will allow her to learn more about the terrorists' ideas and get more answers.
But, even if you know everything, what can you do?
On the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attack in Charlie Hebrew, a mural depicting the image of the victims of the terrorist attack outside the magazine headquarters.
50-year-old critic and novelist Philip Lansong is unfortunate. On January 7, 2015, Lan Song should have gone to the French newspaper Liberation Office to write a review article, and then went to Cuba in February. In the fall of that year, she went to Princeton University in the United States to teach and reunite with her girlfriend who lives in New York. But he parked his bicycle downstairs of Charlie Hebrew... Like the editors and cartoonists in Charlie Hebrew's office, Lan Song had no time to hide. He was hit by at least three bullets and fell to the floor.
Lansong is also lucky. When he struggled to open his eyes, he found himself lying in a pool of hot blood, realizing that his chin seemed to be ripped by a bullet.
However, survivor Lan Song found that it was not easy to get life back on track. He spent nearly a year in two hospitals.In the past three years, he underwent 17 surgeries, removing bones from his right leg and rebuilding his chin, and the skin on his neck must also undergo stretching to cover the wound and restore his appearance.
Philip Lansong
Lansong gradually accepted his new appearance, but he could no longer eat solid food. He smiled bitterly and called the wound that repeatedly oozed out of the tissue fluid "shredded pork chop". He lives in constant anxiety, worried that the terrorists would come back, and always feels that they are outside the windows of the ward and in the corridor...
The best time for the return?
For the families and survivors of the victims, a peaceful and happy life is hard to come back. However, what kind of attitude should we face the future?
"We will never give up, we will never fall, we still remember the heavy incident five years ago." Charlie Hebdo, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, wrote in the latest issue.
On the day of the trial, Charlie Hebrew printed with the controversial Prophet comic
On the day of the trial on Wednesday, Charlie Hebrew printed with the Prophet comic returned to people's attention after five years. It seems that in Charlie Hebrew's view, the launch of the trial is the best time to return the Prophet Comics, and this year, Charlie Hebrew will also celebrate its 50th anniversary.
"Since January 2015, we have been asked to print other comics about the Prophets." A Charlie Hebrew editorial wrote in this issue, "We have always refused to do this, not because we are prohibited from doing this (the law allows us to do this), but because it requires a good reason, a reason that makes sense and will cause debate."
This move did cause debate.
"This kind of deliberate offending the feelings of more than one billion Muslims cannot be used as a reason to exercise freedom of the press or freedom of speech." A spokesperson for the Pakistan Foreign Ministry expressed strong opposition. In addition, several Muslim countries have raised strong protests against Charlie Hebrew's move.
But Mohamed Mousavi, chairman of the French Islamic Council, believes that the caricature is not wrong. He said people should not just focus on the re-publishing of these Prophet comics, "Everyone has comic freedom and there is no reason to defend violence."
Gerard Biard, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, who escaped from being in London, believed that the Internet amplified people's anger. "Sarcastic comics should not be used to please people. They should be crucial and thought-provoking," Biard said. "But now when people see these critical content on social media, they will immediately personalize them and respond and threaten the author in an extremely fierce way."
Although a poll released on August 31 showed that 59% of French people believe that Charlie Hebdo is correct to publish comics in the name of freedom of speech, there is never absolute freedom in this world, and even satirical comics should have a bottom line of irony.
Whether or not the Prophet comics offend the Islamic world or not, many of Charlie Hebrew’s satirical comics don’t seem funny to readers at all.
When the Russian passenger plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in the second half of 2015, Charlie Hebrew started to write an article and mocked it three times. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Zakharova angrily denounced: "Who else is Charlie?"
When the 2016 earthquake in Italy claimed hundreds of lives, Charlie Hebrew used "lasagna" to mock Italian bodies in piles and aroused public anger.
When a terrorist attack occurred in Barcelona, Spain in 2017, a cartoon published by Charlie Hebdo incites people to anti-Muslim sentiment.
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A week after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebrew, the weekly magazine published a cartoon of a prophet holding a slogan “I am Charlie”.
Is it freedom of speech, or prejudice and cynical?
As French President Macron said, freedom of speech also means respect for others. What exists at the same time as freedom of speech is the responsibility of not making hate speech.
(Picture GJ in the article)
Written by Deep Sea Salmon
Editor Du Yuao
