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| Hebdo founder: Slain editor 'dragged' team to their deaths |
| 2015-01-16 |
| [Telegraph] One of the founders of Charlie Hebdo has accused its murdered editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, or Charb, of "dragging the team" to their deaths by publishing increasingly provocative cartoons. Henri Roussel, 80, who contributed to the first issue in 1970, wrote to the slain editor, "I really hold it against you." In this week's Nouvel Obs, Roussel - who publishes under the pen name Delfeil de Ton - said, "I know it’s not done," then proceeds to criticize Charbonnier. Calling Charb an "amazing lad", he said he was also a obstinate "block head". Referring to Charb’s decision to post a Mohammed caricature on the front page in 2011, Roussel asked, "What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it?" Soon afterwards, the magazine’s offices were burned down by unknown arsonists. Delfeil added, "He shouldn't have done it, but Charb did it again a year later, in September 2012." The accusation brought forth a furious reaction from Richard Malka, Charlie Hebdo's longtime lawyer, who sent an angry message to Mathieu Pigasse, one of the owners of Nouvel Obs and Le Monde. Malka wrote, "Charb has not yet even been buried and Obs finds nothing better to do that to publish a polemical and venomous piece on him." Nouvel Obs's editor Matthieu Croissandeau said, "We received this text and after a debate I decided to publish it in an edition on freedom of expression, it would have seemed to me worrisome to have censored his voice, even if it is discordant. Particularly as this is the voice of one of the pioneers of the gang." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 Free expression ain't free. |
| Posted by: Anice Nim 2015-01-16 15:59 |
| #2 2015-80 = 1935. You'd think he remember the last time people kowtowed to violent censorship. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-01-16 12:50 |
| #1 Some would rather die standing than live on their knees. If anyone apart from the totalitarian theocrats of Islam is at fault, it is the Western political class. The West could have easily survived standing by unapologetically putting to death at least some of the wannabe enslavers. One could say that is was "Operation Enduring Freedom" that dragged these people to their deaths while "Operation Infinite Justice" would have saved both lives and liberty in the West. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-01-16 05:18 |