‘EuroNews’: Charlie Hebdo’s Unrepentant Record

Charlie Hebdo’s unrepentant record (EuroNews)

Charlie Hebdo has been publishing satire since its creation in 1969. Its left-wing editorial content was like bare-knuckle boxing, pop, politics, religion all fair game in the secular temple of traditional free expression.

In February 2006, it reprinted Danish daily Jyllands-Posten’s unflattering cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, which had sparked a storm of threatening protests throughout the Muslim world.

The editor-in-chief of the time, Philippe Val, said: “We published those caricatures first out of solidarity with the cartoonists in Denmark, not as a provocation. Exercising the right of freedom of the press is not provocation.”