(Radio France) The weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is being sued by a Muslim school in southern France after an article linked it to the Muslim Brotherhood. The magazine’s lawyers invoked “its editorial line,” and denied libel.
Published in July 2022, the piece linked the private school in [the] southern city of Valence, run by the “Valeurs et Réussite” association, and the Islamist branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The article had created controversy and led, according to the association, to the cancellation in October 2022 of the sale of an 8,400m2 plot of land, voted by the city in June, after an intervention by the prefecture of police.
Appearing in court in Valence on Tuesday, Charlie Hebdo‘s lawyers said the accusations are an attack against their work.
