On 16 January 2024, Cartooning for Peace and the Centre Paris’ Anim in the 9th arrondissement will be bringing together around a hundred secondary school students for a moment of exchange and remembrance around the attack on Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015.
The aim of the event is to create a space for dialogue between young people, journalists and press cartoonists around press cartoons, freedom of expression and human rights.
On 7 January 2015 in Paris, a terrorist attack plunged France into mourning, and with it the whole world: twelve people, including 8 members of the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, were shot dead in cold blood by two young Islamist terrorists, accusing the newspaper of having insulted the Prophet Mohammed in its cartoons.
Ten years on, Charlie Hebdo has courageously stood up to barbarism and still gives its readers a weekly rendez-vous at the newsstands.
Ten years on, younger generations have no memory of this tragedy, which nevertheless had a profound effect on our era. The duty of remembrance is more necessary than ever to reiterate loud and clear the importance of freedom of expression, the foundation of democracy!
With:
Moderator: Juliette Loiseau, General Director of the Centre Paris Anim’ Jacques Bravo
To mark the occasion, the Cartooning for Peace exhibition ‘Press cartoons: A State of Affairs’, on display until 7 February, will be open to the public at the centre. It offers an insight into the work of press cartoonists, pacifist defenders of the ills of our societies, who are regularly the target of attacks around the world. And yet, through the beneficial medium of laughter, they are the courageous guarantors of freedom of the press, helping to preserve the health of our democracies when it is threatened.
This January, Cartooning for Peace, which is committed to defending freedom of expression on a daily basis, is paying tribute to Charlie Hebdo: More information here.
