(Radio France) A decade after jihadists stormed its Paris newsroom killing eight staff members, satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo is charting an ambitious course for its next 10 years. Chief editor [Gérard] Biard tells RFI the paper remains resolute in its mission to mock all religions.
The Kouachi brothers, who had pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, attacked Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015, killing eight staff members, including cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski.
The satirical weekly had, since 2006, riled Islamists with its caricatures of the [Prophet] Mohammed.
Despite the trauma, the magazine continues to take swipes not just at Islam but Christianity, Judaism and any other insitutionalised belief system, in line with its defence of freedom of expression and the French form of secularism known as laicité.
