French Magazine Charlie Hebdo Republishes Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Ahead Of Trial For 2015 Islamist Attack
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad ahead of the trial of the 14 people accused of helping to carry out the Islamist attack in January 2015, numerous sources reported.
The 12 original cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad include Muhammad wearing a bomb instead of a turban, and the French headline reads โTout รงa pour รงa,โ which means โAll of that for this,โ the BBC
reported.
Numรฉro spรฉcial : Tout รงa pour รงa.
A Danish magazine first
published the cartoons of Muhammad in 2005. A year later, Charlie Hebdo reprinted the cartoons, sparking anger among many Muslims for blasphemy.
Brothers Chรฉrif and Said Kouachi attacked the magazineโs offices in Paris on Jan. 7, 2015 with grenades and submachine guns, killing 12 people. When the attackers left the scene, they shouted that they had โavenged the Prophet,โ according to
NPR.
Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad made Charlie Hebdo a target for attacks in the past as well, leading to death threats against the editorial team and a petrol bomb attack on its officers in 2011, the BBC reported.
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โWe will never give up,โ wrote publishing director Laurent โRissโ Sourisseau, who was wounded in the attack, according to NPR. โThe hatred that struck us is still there and, since 2015, it has taken the time to mutate, to change its appearance, to go unnoticed and to quietly continue its ruthless crusade.โ
French Magazine Charlie Hebdo Republishes Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Ahead Of Trial For 2015 Islamist Attack