
When Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Coco thought back and drew for a new documentary about the slaughter she survived 10 years ago at the French satirical journal, the memories that streamed from her marker pen were all black.
Black barrels of the guns that the al-Qaida-linked gunmen used to mow down 12 people, decimating Charlie’s staff of cheeky cartoonists who reveled in their right to lampoon all and sundry and poked fun at Islamic extremism with caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. [ . . . ]
Continue at source: AP PHOTOS: The Charlie Hebdo slaughter and follow-up terror attacks 10 years ago that changed France
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