mon 04 jan 2016, 08:24

God on the cover of Charlie Hebdo

PARIS –

A year after the bloody attack on the satirical magazine brings Charlie Hebdo a special edition. On the cover is God portrayed with a kalashnikov on his back. The accompanying text mentions that a year after the attack, the killer is still on free feet.

Een oude voorpagina van Charlie Hebdo uit januari 2015 na de bloedige aanslag op de redactie van het blad.

An old cover of Charlie Hebdo, January, 2015 after the bloody attack on the editorial staff of the magazine.
Photo: AFP

On January 7, 2015 attacked the two terrorists, the editorial staff of the weekly in Paris. There were twelve deaths, among them eight journalists. Ten others were injured. The culprits, two brothers of respectively 32 and 34, were later in the town of Dammartin-en-Goële during a shootout with the police for life. Editor-in-chief Riss, who survived the attack, condemns in the latest issue extremism.

Charlie Hebdo in 2011 was already the target of an attack. At the time, was a molotov cocktail thrown.

The magazine has a circulation of approximately 200,000 copies. The current number comes in a much larger print run, about a million copies. A week after the assault last year even went so far 7.5 million copies over the counter.