Charlie Hebdo Fires Back at Swiss Complaint With Cartoon Evoking 2015 Attack
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Yesterday, as news broke that a Swiss couple had filed a criminal complaint against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo over a cartoon that mocked the deaths and burn victims from the New Year’s Eve Crans-Montana ski resort fire, the no-holds-barred paper fired back with another “drawing of the day” by Éric Salch. The cartoon asks the question “Do we have the right to blaspheme with the Swiss?” and ends with the caption, “The editorial staff decimated by two crossbowmen.” The image depicts two Swiss William Tell characters standing in a breached Charlie Hebdo office door overlooking a bloody massacre of staffers. The scene may intentionally evoke the Charlie Hebdo attack carried out by two gunmen in 2015.
On a related note, the initial controversial Salch cartoon prompted a response by Swiss cartoonist Simon Charrière who criticized Charlie Hebdo for attacking the victims and not the owner who allegedly neglected maintenance of the bar where the Crans-Montana fire took place. The cartoon was posted on Simon’s Instagram account with a description: “When Charlie misses the wrong target 🎯”
The cartoon below is captioned: “WHERE IS CHARLIE?!?”
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