The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, whose latest book featured on the cover of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the day of the massacre at its offices, has stopped its promotion as the victims were being mourned. Continue reading…
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Cartoonist Wolinski’s daughter: I don’t think you can kill ideas
The daughter of one of the cartoonists murdered in the Charlie Hebdo attack has shared a poignant photograph of his empty desk.
The image posted on Instagram by Elsa Wolinski, daughter of Georges Wolinski, shows an office where a pen lies at the ready on a sheaf of paper beside a black notebook. The caption says: “Dad is gone, not Wolinski.” Continue reading…
Policeman Ahmed Merabet mourned after death in Charlie Hebdo attack
It was a Muslim policeman from a local police station who was “slaughtered like a dog” after heroically attempting to stop two heavily armed killers from fleeing the offices of Charlie Hebdo following their brutal massacre. Continue reading…
Fight intimidation with controversy: Charlie Hebdo’s response to critics
When attackers burst into the weekly meeting of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday and unleashed fatal gunfire on 10 journalists, four of them the magazine’s rambunctious and irreverent cartoonists, they struck at the heart of a paper that had become a symbol of free speech in France. Continue reading…
Revenge memoir by Hollande’s former partner Valérie Trieweiler to be turned into film
Every time the French president, François Hollande, tries to present himself in a statesmanlike role, his former partner, Valérie Trierweiler, steals the limelight.
Monday was no exception. After Hollande spent two hours on French radio in a patent relaunch of his presidency, a film producer announced that a biopic of Trierweiler’s revenge memoir Merci Pour Ce Moment (Thank You For This Moment) is now in the works. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 