Charlie Hebdo attacks: Hollande says magazine 'reborn'
French President Francois
Hollande has insisted Charlie Hebdo and its values will survive, after
the new edition of the satirical weekly sold out in hours
"Charlie Hebdo is alive and will live on," Mr Hollande said
Millions more copies of the magazine are being printed because of demand
It comes a week after Islamist gunmen murdered 12 people at
its offices and five others in subsequent attacks. The new edition has
angered some Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad
The cartoon shows the Prophet weeping while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie", and below the headline "All is forgiven"
"I am Charlie" emerged as a message of support for both the
magazine and free speech following the attacks that started on 7
January
French President Francois
Hollande has insisted Charlie Hebdo and its values will survive, after
the new edition of the satirical weekly sold out in hours.
"Charlie Hebdo is alive and will live on," Mr Hollande said.
Millions more copies of the magazine are being printed because of demand.
It comes a week after Islamist gunmen murdered 12 people at
its offices and five others in subsequent attacks. The new edition has
angered some Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
The cartoon shows the Prophet weeping while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie", and below the headline "All is forgiven".
"I am Charlie" emerged as a message of support for both the
magazine and free speech following the attacks that started on 7
January
Survivors' issue
Following the publication of Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo issue,
President Hollande said: "You can murder men and women but you can never
kill their ideas."
He said the magazine had been "reborn" in the week after the killings.
The planned run increased steadily this week - from one million to three million to five million
People waited for kiosks to open to buy the magazine
It will have a print run of five million issues this week, dwarfing the normal circulation of about 60,000
The "survivors' issue", as the magazine calls it, is
available in six languages including English, Arabic and Turkish.
Proceeds are going to victims' families
Eight journalists, including its editor, were killed in
addition to four others when two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi,
stormed Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris on 7 January
In a separate attack in the city two days later, an Islamist gunman killed four Jewish men and took hostages at a kosher shop
The same attacker, Amedy Coulibaly, is believed to have shot a policewoman the day before
'World fallen apart'
A video purportedly from al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP) said it planned and
financed the Hebdo attack as "vengeance for the Prophet", but did not
provide evidence to support its claims.
The gunmen are said to have used earlier publication of images of the Prophet as justification for their attack on the magazine.
AQAP had previously welcomed the assault, without acknowledging any role in the operation seemore.
The gunmen are said to have used earlier publication of images of the Prophet as justification for their attack on the magazine.
AQAP had previously welcomed the assault, without acknowledging any role in the operation seemore.
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