Charlie Hebdo founder accuses murdered editor of intentionally bringing death upon staff
The claims made by the magazine’s founder angered Charlie Hebdo lawyer, Richard Malka
Paris: A week after deadly terror attacks on satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris left 12 of its editorial staff dead, the magazine’s founder Henri Roussel, has accused the magazine’s editor of unnecessarily dragging his colleagues to death.
Roussel who had worked on the first issue of Charlie Hebdo in 1970, was upset with editor Stéphane Charbonnier, who went by the nick-name ‘Charb’, for stoking the anger of Muslim extremist groups when he published a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed in 2011.
Roussel, who used to contribute to Hara-Kiri Hebdo, before the magazine changed its name to Charlie-Hebdo, had cautioned Charb against going ahead with the cartoons.
The magazine’s first cover that ridiculed the Sharia law, had a drawing of Prophet Mohammed, which said “100 lashes of the whip if you don’t die laughing!” under a banner saying “Charia Hebdo” in reference to Sharia law.
In an article written by Henri Roussel, who often publishes under the pen-name Delfeil de Ton, in a French magazine Nouvel Obs, wrote, “What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it?”
Roussel also added, “I believe that we are fools who took an unnecessary risk. That’s it. We think we are invulnerable. For years, decades even, it was a provocation and then one day the provocation turns against us.”
“He shouldn’t have done it, but Charb did it again a year later, in September 2012,” said Roussel.
A week after deadly terror attacks on satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris that left 12 of its editorial staff dead, the magazine’s founder Henri Roussel, has accused the magazine’s editor of unnecessarily dragging his colleagues to death.
However, the claims made by the magazine’s founder angered Charlie Hebdo lawyer Richard Malka, who has worked for the publication for the last 22 years.
He told Mathieu Pigasse, one of the owners of Nouvel Obs and Le Monde, “Charb has not yet even been buried and Obs finds nothing better to do that to publish a polemical and venomous piece on him.”