The French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that made them the target of a deadly terror attack in 2015.
This comes a day before 14 people go on trial accused of helping the two Islamist fundamentalists who carried out their jihadi attack on 7 January 2015.
Twelve people were killed, including famous cartoonists. Five people died in a related attack in Paris days later, these then saw a number of terror attacks sweep France.
The front cover of the latest edition features the 12 original cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which were published in a Danish newspaper before appearing in Charlie Hebdo. One of the cartoons shows the prophet wearing a bomb instead of a turban. The French headline reads “Tout ça pour ça” (“All of that for this”).
In its editorial, the magazine says that it has often been asked to carry on printing caricatures of the prophet since the 2015 killings.
“We have always refused to do so, not because it is prohibited – the law allows us to do so – but because there was a need for a good reason to do it, a reason which has meaning and which brings something to the debate. To reproduce these cartoons in the week the trial over the January 2015 terrorist attacks opens seemed essential to us.”
The fourteen suspects are accused of obtaining weapons and providing logistical support for the attackers of Charlie Hebdo’s Paris offices, and subsequent attacks on a Jewish supermarket and a police officer.
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