(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted in a devastating 2015 attack over cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed considered blasphemous by many Muslims, has denounced the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.
“Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence,” wrote the magazine’s managing editor Laurent Sourisseau, known as Riss, himself a survivor of the 2015 shootings, which claimed 12 lives.
Riss, who still lives under police protection, later told the French weekly Journal du dimanche that no one living under the threat of such an attack can ever drop their guard.
British author Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after an Iranian fatwa ordered his killing, is on a ventilator following a stabbing attack at a literary event in New York State Friday.
