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January 14, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Publishes 1st Issue Since Attack with Prophet Muhammad on Cover 
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Charlie Hebdo has just published its first issue since the attacks. The
cover features the Prophet Muhammad holding a sign that reads, "Je Suis
Charlie," or "I am Charlie," with the headline, "All is forgiven." At an
emotional news conference on Tuesday, the cartoonist who drew the cover,
Rénald Luzier, known as Luz, explained its creation.

Rénald Luzier: "Then there was nothing else but that, this idea of
drawing Muhammad, I am Charlie. And I looked at him. He was crying. And
over it, I wrote, 'All is forgiven.' I cried. And it was the front page.
We had found the front page. We had at last found this damned front
page. And it was our front page, not the one the world wanted us to do,
but the one that we wanted to do. It wasn't the front page that the
terrorists wanted us to do, because there isn't a terrorist in there.
There's just a man crying, a character crying. It's Muhammad. I'm sorry,
we drew him again, but the Muhammad we drew is a man crying, above all."

 

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