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Articles by Valentin Bontemps

Christians

In Spain, jihadist attacks a dormant but real threat

January 26, 2023 Valentin Bontemps and Alfons Luna  

(AFP) The deadly church attack in Algeciras has rekindled Spanish concerns about the jihadist threat, which experts say is still present although the country has been relatively spared from attacks in recent years. On Wednesday evening, a machete-wielding attacker entered two churches […]

Arts & Entertainment

‘Nothing to regret’ over Mohammed cartoons: Charlie Hebdo chief

September 9, 2020 Valentin Bontemps and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) The current director of France’s Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in January 2015, on Wednesday said the magazine had “nothing to regret” for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that angered Muslims around the […]

Demonstrations

Survivor of Charlie Hebdo attack recalls ‘horror’ at trial

September 8, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Valentin Bontemps  

(AFP) The French cartoonist forced by the attackers of the Charlie Hebdo weekly to let them into its offices said Tuesday that she had been traumatised by feelings of guilt, as she recalled the horror of the January 2015 massacre. Corinne Rey, […]

Legal

‘Killing machines’: Charlie Hebdo trial revisits 2015 attack

September 7, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Valentin Bontemps  

(AFP) A Paris court on Monday sat through a viewing of graphic images of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo newsroom attack scene, prompting horrified members of the audience to leave the room in tears. More than five years after the massacre at the […]

Legal

‘You cannot kill the innocent’: Key Charlie Hebdo suspect denies charges

September 4, 2020 Valentin Bontemps  

(AFP) A primary suspect in the trial over the 2015 massacres at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere in Paris denied on Friday any responsibility for the attacks carried out by jihadists, one of whom was a close associate. Ali Riza Polat, […]

Legal

Trial opens over Charlie Hebdo terror attacks that stunned France

September 2, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Valentin Bontemps  

(AFP) Fourteen suspected accomplices of the jihadist gunmen who attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket appeared in a Paris court Wednesday, five years after the three days of terror that rocked France. The killings, which began on January […]

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