Always Charlie

Five years already since barbarians massacred the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo. Five years already that we deplore the victims of the attacks of January 2015 and that we live without the cartoons of Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous, Wolinski…

Impossible to resolve, despite the passage of time.

The decision by the New York Times last June to stop the press cartoon was a further step in the long struggle to defend this unique form of freedom of expression *.

And yet, 5 years later, Charlie Hebdo is still standing, and cartoonists around the world continue to resist to defend freedom, democracy, humour, criticism, impertinence, intelligence… all these human qualities that differentiate us from barbarians.

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*This is what the Addis Ababa Declaration for the recognition of press cartoons as a fundamental right, as well as the recent special dossier published by Cartooning for Peace and Courrier International last December, remind us.

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