Al-Qaeda threatens Charlie Hebdo for republishing Mohammed cartoons: Report
Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 bloodbath of its personnel, after it republished debatable cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory stated on Friday.
Al-Qaeda in its newsletter One Ummah had warned that Charlie Hebdo can be wrong if it believed the 2015 assault was once a “one off”, after the mag revealed the “contemptible caricatures” in a defiant factor that marked the beginning of the trial in Paris of suspected accomplices within the assault.
The feedback got here in an English version of the Al-Qaeda newsletter that presupposed to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 assaults on the USA performed via the fear community.
It stated it had the “identical message” for the President of France Emmanuel Macron because it did for his predecessor Francois Hollande who was once president on the time of the 2015 assaults.
It stated France beneath Macron “gave a inexperienced gentle” to the republication of the cartoons.
Twelve other people, together with a few of France’s maximum celebrated cartoonists, have been killed on January 7, 2015, when brothers Mentioned and Cherif Kouachi went on a gun rampage on the workplaces of Charlie Hebdo, whose no-taboo taste, together with publishing cartoons of the prophet, had divided the rustic.
The trial, which started on September 2 and is predicted to proceed till November, sees 14 suspected accomplices face justice even supposing the entire perpetrators have been killed within the wake of the assaults.
It had reopened one of the crucial publish painful chapters in France’s fashionable historical past which heralded a spate of jihadist assaults on its territory that experience claimed greater than 250 lives.
Charlie Hebdo’s director Laurent Sourisseau, referred to as “Riss” and who was once himself badly wounded within the shoulder within the assault, informed the court docket this week that there was once not anything to feel sorry about in publishing the cartoons.
“What I feel sorry about is to peer how little other people combat to shield freedom. If we do not combat for our freedom, we are living like a slave and we endorse a dangerous ideology,” he stated.
Charlie Hebdo’s republication of the cartoons drew new condemnation from states together with Iran, Pakistan and Turkey.
However Sourisseau, who now lives beneath round-the-clock coverage, stated it needed to republish them.
“If we had given up the appropriate to post those cartoons, that may imply that we have been incorrect to take action” within the first position, he stated.
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