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Charlie Hebdo marks 10 year anniversary since deadly Paris attack

Charlie Hebdo marks 10 year anniversary since deadly Paris attack

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The Charlie Hebdo attack occurred on January 7, 2015, when Islamist gunmen killed several staff members, including cartoonists Cabu, Wolinski, Charb, and Tignous. This was the first of three days of terrorist attacks in France, followed by Amédy Coulibaly's attack on a police officer and hostage-taking incident. Ten years later, Charlie Hebdo released a special edition, featuring a cartoon with the caption "Indestructible!" and a caricature contest mocking God and religious leaders.

Charlie Hebdo
1. Satire has a virtue that has enabled us to get through these tragic years: optimism.
2. The idea is not to publish anything, it's to publish everything that makes people doubt, brings them to reflect, to ask questions, to not end up closed in by ideology.
3. Yes, we can laugh about God, especially if he exists.
Bruno Retailleau
Republican Party
1. It is now primarily endogenous -- young individuals radicalized through social media. Last year alone, our services foiled nine attacks, the highest number since 2017.
Georges Wolinski
1. It's good that 10 years later we can still remember those who died on 7 January so well.
Laurent Sourisseau
Charlie Hebdo
1. If you want to laugh, it means you want to live. Laughing, irony, and caricatures are manifestations of optimism. Whatever happens, dramatic or happy, the desire to laugh will never cease.
Patrick Lamassoure
Cartooning for Peace
1. And if people are angry because they don't like what you say, that's good, that's freedom of expression — as long as you don't break any law.
2. We are monitoring the situation of international cartoonists wherever they are on the planet, and I must say the trend is really bad.
3. I think it's great because it's something that Charlie Hebdo would have done, even if nobody had attacked them.
4. Even people who criticize cartoonists need that freedom.
5. Cartooning represents the ability of citizens to look our leaders in the eye and say 'we see what you're doing and we can laugh at you,'
6. China, Russia, Iran, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil, among others, the majority of the world's population lives in countries where there is press censorship [and] cartoonists are often attacked and threatened.
Philippe Val
Charlie Hebdo
1. I called a meeting [before publication] of all Charlie's staff to ask their opinion and if only one hadn't wanted to, we wouldn't have published … But I don't regret it, it had to be done, the fight isn't over, things aren't any better today.