Charlie Hebdo Founder Blames Dead Editor For Overdoing It And Dragging The Team To Their Deaths

15 Jan 2015 by Kiernan in France, Politics, Vibe

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Old people can get really grumpy. I suppose it’s better to use the word ‘cantankerous’, but that doesn’t change the fact that sometimes you wish they would just take out their dentures and hou their bekke.

In what is an extraordinary attack on the slain editor of Charlie Hebdo, the 80-year-old former founding member Henri Roussel placed the blame for the attack on Stéphane Charbonnier (pen name Charb) for “dragging the team to their deaths”. Roussel claimed Charb and the magazine were pushing the boundaries with their increasingly controversial cartoons.

This from the Telegraph:

Calling Charb an “amazing lad”, he said he was also a stubborn “block head”.

“What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it,” he said, referring to Charb’s decision to post a Mohammed character on the magazine’s front page in 2011. Soon afterwards, the magazine’s offices were burned down by unknown arsonists.

This has understandably raised the ire of those still closely involved with Charlie Hebdo, including the publication’s lawyer of 22 years Richard Malka. He wrote in a strongly-worded message to the owner of another left-wing magazine, Nouvel Obs:

Charb has not yet even been buried and Obs finds nothing better to do that to publish a polemical and venomous piece on him…

I refuse to allow myself to be invaded by bad thoughts, but my disappointment is immense.

We’re not saying this old codger should be taken out the back and dealt with, but perhaps next time he could wait until the bodies were cold before launching public attacks on those murdered. Then again, you almost have to feel that given Charlie’s ‘don’t give a shit’ attitude, maybe they would have appreciated his disregard for social niceties.

[source:telegraph]

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