A year on, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ is still defiant

The satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, whose staff was decimated by Islamic extremists on January 7, 2015, is running a special edition this week, its cover cartoon a bloody God armed with a Kalashnikov, accompanied by the headline: “One year on. The murderer is still at large.”

In a profanity-laced editorial, editor Laurent Sourisseau (‘Riss’), described the newsroom’s silence moments after the two gunmen opened fire.

But he said the newspaper would remain alive because “never have we wanted so much to break the faces of those who dreamed of our deaths.”