Charlie Hebdo attack: Newspaper provokes Muslims by offending Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) again
Charlie Hebdo's journalists in a meeting at their temporary headoffice at Libération newspaper. Photo: copyright
French government offers a two days’ free advertisement for Charlie Hebdo , which will be published here on Wednesday, and will be sold in all the European countries and translated to 16 languages, including Arabic, but the number will not be sold in any Arab country, but for Arabs who live in Paris.
Sarcastic newspaper which was before last Wednesday’s events facing bankruptcy and stopping work once and for all, to work for the Libération Newspaper, not in solidarity with the newspaper, which was attacked by a criminal act, but in order to support the daily Libération newspaper, which also suffered in recent years because of the decline of readers’ number, this is why it tried to exploit the newspaper’s expected sale, and publicizing itself because Charlie Hebdo journalists focused in today’s number today on thanking the Libération newspaper.
If the cover page has emerged since days in the French newspapers, which is the cartoon of the Prophet Mouhamed (PBUH), carrying a sign written on it “I am Charlie”, with a reference to tolerance, this number contains repeated caricatures that hurt Muslims, and will last until January 19.
Magazine’s department decided to sell the magazine in kiosks for almost two full months, because of the record copies which reach three million, especially as distributors who will put copies in more than 37.000 Point of Sale in France, promised to waive their financial rights and margin of proceeds for the newspaper, which will be pumped into the coffers of the proceeds of selling one million copies, and the rest will be for paying debts and compensate the victims’ families.
Today’s edition will notice the publication of cartoons, most of which are not issued by the four victims, who are Kabi, Volenski, Sharp and Tigno, although today’s number was published in eight pages only, but it maintained its price sale, which is Three Euros for a newspaper, which last publication was before the incident reached only 60,000 copies before traveling to three million copies, that were all printed in the city of Lyon, and were distributed in 25 countries of the world, as the magazine sent about 4,000 copies to Belgium, and lifted the publications outside France to 300.000 copies.
French journalists think that this large number of copies will make the French keep away from the rest of the newspapers and magazines, especially the weekly magazine during this period. This is what has made some large French newspapers keep away from the free advertisement game, because they considered Charlie Hebdo a yellow newspaper and not sarcastic as it claims, the proof is that it singled out in recent years in insulting the Prophet Mouhamed (PBUH), in a way that exceeded what the Danish newspaper did, since nine years ago.