On 7 January 2015 in Paris, a terrorist attack plunged France into mourning, and with it the whole world: twelve people, including eight members of the Charlie Hebdo editorial team, among them the talented cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, were shot dead in cold blood by two young Islamic terrorists.
It is impossible to forget those frightening hours and days, which were also marked by the murder of a policewoman in Montrouge on 8 January and the hostage-taking at the Hyper Casher shop in Paris, which left four people dead on 9 January.
But they didn’t kill Charlie! Ten years on, the newspaper Charlie Hebdo has courageously stood up to barbarism and is still giving its readers a weekly rendez-vous at the newsstands. Obscurantism and terrorism have not killed their freedom. Freedom to draw, to think and to laugh. Against all odds. In a fierce battle between pencils that kill no one and Kalashnikovs that shed blood.
This January, Cartooning for Peace, which is committed to defending freedom of expression on a daily basis, is paying tribute to Charlie Hebdo:
- On the 2nd of January: Publication of “Holding the Line – 40 cartoons for Charlie (2015-2025)”. TRACT illustrated by Cartooning for Peace published by Gallimard
- From the 4th to the 11th of January: Cartoons for “Charlie” by Le Monde
- On the 7th of January: Press cartoon social media campaign by Cartooning for Peace member cartoonists #cartooningforCharlie
- On the 8th of January: Training in human rights education and pedagogy through press cartoons for education professionals, in partnership with 2IDHP
- On the 11th of January: International press and digital campaign with Reporters without borders (RSF)
- On the 16th of January: Commemoration of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo: a time of exchange and remembrance with secondary school pupils at the Centre Paris’ Anim Jacques Bravo
- On the 17th of January: Round-table “Libérons les crayons” : 10 years on, what remains of the Charlie Spirit? with the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council
- On the 20th of January: Meeting “The 1001 lives of press cartoons” with BPI Centre Pompidou
PRESS REVIEW:
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- Le Devoir – Editorial cartoonists: an endangered species? with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 4 January 2025
- L’Echo – Ten years after ‘Charlie’, the lost carefree attitude of cartoonists with an interview of Nicolas Vadot, Pierre Kroll, Philippe Geluck (Belgium) and Kak (France) (in French) – 5 January 2025
- RTBF – 10 years after Charlie Hebdo, the profession of press cartoonist has changed, with an interview of Pierre Kroll and Kanar (Belgium) (in French) – 5 January 2025
- France 3, Région Île-de-France -‘Everyone is free to use cartoons or not, and if they go off course, it’s the teacher’s responsibility’, 10 years after the Charlie Hebdo attack, teachers are asking themselves questions (in French) – 5 January 2025
- RTL info – 10 years after the Charlie Hebdo attack, cartoonist Plantu is still under police protection: ‘It’s a disgrace for our democracies’ with an interview of Plantu (France) and Nicolas Vadot (Belgium) (in French) – 6 January 2025
- Public Sénat – Charlie Hebdo attack: why press cartoons are under increasing threat with an interview of Mykaïa and Truant (France) (in French) – 6 January 2025
- RTL info – ‘We can’t imagine being machine-gunned for that’: 10 years after the Charlie Hebdo attack, Pierre Kroll calls laughter ‘dangerous’ with an interview of Pierre Kroll (Belgium) (in French) – 6 January 2025
- France info – ‘The terrorists have won’: ten years after the attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’, press cartoonists look grim with an interview of Coco, Cambon, Kokopello, Olivier Ménégol, Kak, Visant, Thierry Doudoux (France), Glez (Burkina Faso) and Chappatte (Switzerland) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- France 24 – Ten years after the Charlie Hebdo attack, cartoonist Mana Neyestani says he is ‘pessimistic’ with an interview of Mana Neyestani (Iran) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- La Nouvelle République – How the Charlie Hebdo attack and the 2015 attacks changed France, with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Il Fatto Quotidiano – Charlie Hebdo, ten years ago the attack that changed France. ‘But how many defend satire today? Freedom of expression in decline all over the world’ (in Italian) – 7 January 2025
- France 24 – Ten years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Télérama – Ten years after ‘Charlie’: ‘I’ve ended up incorporating the forbidden’, press cartoonists on minefields with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- La Libre – ‘Those who attack cartoons by suggesting that they have become untouchable would actually like them to disappear’ with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- La Nouvelle République – ‘Our job is to stir people’s minds’ with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- 20 minutes – Charlie Hebdo’ attack: Ten years on, cartoonists are still affected with an interview of Kroll (Belgium), Joep Bertrams (Netherlands) and Riss from Charlie Hebdo (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Le Populaire du Centre – ‘Fears that one day press cartoons will disappear’ with an interview of Placide (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- TV5 Monde – Seen from Burkina Faso: ‘Being Charlie doesn’t mean copying and pasting Charlie Hebdo’s style everywhere’ with an interview of Glez (Burkina Faso) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Seine-Saint-Denis magazine – Charlie Hebdo: ten years on, Seine-Saint-Denis remembers (in French) – 7 January 2025
- France 3, Région Aquitaine – Attacks on Charlie Hebdo. Are we still ‘Charlie’ in Aquitaine ten years on? with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- La Villa numeris – Charlie Hebdo, 10 ans already (in French) – 7 January 2025
- ActuaBD – ‘The enemies of press freedom today are the multi-billionaires who control the media’ with an interview of Kichka (Israel) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Le Café pédagogique – 10 years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo: Freedom, I draw your name – 8 January 2025
- CS Monitor – Ten years after Charlie Hebdo attack, France honors – and debates – the art of satire with an interview of Mykaïa (France) (in English) – 8 January 2025
- Le Monde, Afrique – ‘What ‘Charlie’ is doing today, we can’t do’ with an interview of Lassane Zohoré (Côté d’Ivoire) (in French) – 9 January 2025
- CB News – Defending the freedom to draw means defending the freedom of the press – 12 January 2025
LISTEN
- RTBF, Tendances Premières – Interview of Nicolas Vadot (Belgium) (from the minute 7:10) (in French) – 31st of December 2024
- France inter, Questions politiques – With an interview of Jean-Noël Jeanneney, foreword to the Gallimard TRACT ‘Holding the line’ (from minute 43:45) (in French) – 5 January 2025
- France culture – Press cartoon: ‘The international trend is not good’, ten years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RFI – ‘I’m still Charlie, the resilience shown by Charlie inspires us all’ with an interview of Lassane Zohoré (Côte d’Ivoire) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RFI – ‘Press cartoons, more in danger than ever’ with an interview of Kak (France) and Khalid Gueddar (Morocco) (from minute 29:50) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RFI – What future for press cartoons in a fractured society? with an interview of Lassane Zohoré (Côte d’Ivoire), Glez (Burkina Faso) and Julien Sérignac (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RTBF, Matin Première – Interview of Pierre Kroll (Belgium) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Radio Canada – The Charlie Hebdo attack: the place of cartoons in 2025, with an interview of Mykaïa (France) and Fleg (Canada) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- France inter – Charlie, 10 years on with an interview of Kak, Coco and Olivier Ranson (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RMC – Are we still in the Charlie spirit? with an interview of Plantu (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Radio Canada – 10 years after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, how does cartoonist Plantu remember them? with an interview of Plantu (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Europe 1 – ‘I’m ashamed for my democracy’: Plantu (Charlie Hebdo) opens up to Pascal Praud with an interview of Plantu (France) – 9 January 2025
- RCF – Press cartoons: an expression of national freedom? with an interview of Truant (France) – 9 January 2025
- France info, Le vrai ou faux junior – ‘Do cartoonists have more constraints since 2015?’ Le vrai ou faux junior answers questions about Charlie Hebdo with an interview of Piet (France) (in French) – 10 January 2025
WATCH
- France 24 TV – Charlie Hebdo, 10 years on: Is the pen still mightier than the sword? with an interview of Kak (France) and Kianoush (Iran) (in English) – 7 January 2025
- France 24 TV – At Charlie Hebdo, we carry on, ten years on’ with an interview of Kak (France) and Antonio Fischetti from Charlie Hebdo (in French) – 7 January 2025
- France info TV – Charlie Hebdo: ‘People are afraid to show their opinions’, with an interview of Jean Plantu (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- TV5 Monde – Charlie: ten years on, can we still laugh about everything? with an interview of Pierre Kroll (Belgium) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- France 24, The Debate – How far can satire go? Ten years on, France marks Charlie Hebdo attack with an interview of Kichka (Israel) (in English) – 7 January 2025
- France info – 10 years after the attacks on the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, what is the state of press cartoons in the world? with an interview of Kak (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Radio Canada – Ten years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, what place remains for caricature? with an interview with Pierre Kroll (Belgium) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RTS – ‘Freedom of expression is a principle, it means defending values and the expression of ideas with which we disagree’ with an interview of Chappatte (Switzerland) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- LN24, Bonsoir Le Prime – Ten years on, are we still Charlie? with an interview of Pierre Kroll (Belgium) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RTL info – With an interview of Plantu (France) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- France 24 – Faced with the weakening of the press, ‘humour has become a little narrower today’ with an interview of Chappatte (Switzerland) (from minute 9:00) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- RTS – With an interview of Mykaïa (France) (from minute 11:35) (in French) – 7 January 2025
- Public Sénat – With an interview of Truant (France) (in French) – 8 January 2025
- France 3, Débadoc – When cartoons make the news with an interview of Kak, Urbs (France) and Alice Cagnat (in French) – 9 January 2025
- 公視新聞網 PBS News – People gather in front of the old office to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Weekly terror attack in France with an interview of Stellina (Taiwan) (in Chinese) – 8 janvier 2025
Cartoon: BEHRANG JEDDI (Iran)
